Daughter of the Pirate King (#1) by Tricia Levenseller
$22.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Daughter of the Pirate King
A page turning, seafaring adventure by the YA TikTok sensation Tricia Levenseller.
Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd
$17.95 AUD
Category: Historical
Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him - his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, and hi ...Show more
Ivy Takes Care by Rosemary Wells
$11.95 AUD
Category: Historical
In a heart- and humor-filled adventure by" On the Blue Comet" author Rosemary Wells, a girl spends a summer caring for animals in the mid-century Southwest. Brokenhearted after her best friend leaves for the entire summer, Ivy rallies and finds herself something new and exciting to do: she hires herself ...Show more
Making Bombs for Hitler by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
$14.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Lida and her younger sister, Larissa are caught by the Nazis and separated. Lida is sent to a slave labour camp where she works from dawn to dusk on only bread and soup, clad in one thin dress and no shoes. This is her story.
The Ruby Talisman by Belinda Murrell
$17.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: MURRELL BELINDA
'Tilly visualised the ruby pendant, recreating its crimson fire. She felt herself diving into that pool of colour . . . down into a deep, vivid dream.'Tilly falls asleep wishing she could escape to a more adventurous life. In 1789, Amelie-Mathilde is living in luxury at the Palace of Versailles - but he ...Show more
Viper's Daughter (#7 Chronicles of Ancient Darkness) by Michelle Paver
$17.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: Wolf Brother
A boy. A wolf. The legend lives on. Viper's Daughteris the seventh book in the award-winning series that began with Wolf Brother, selling over 3 million copies in 36 territories. Like them it can be read as a standalone story. For two summers Torakand Rennhave been living in the Forest with their faithf ...Show more
Zero Hour - The Anzacs on the Western Front by Leon Davidson
$27.00 AUD
Category: Historical | Reading Level: very good
The First World War was only meant to last six months. When the Australians and New Zealanders arrived at the Western Front in 1916, the fighting had been going for a year and a half and there was no end in sight. The men took their places in a line of trenches dug throughout Belgium and France from the ...Show more
Buffalo Soldier by Tanya Landman
$16.95 AUD
Category: Historical
This is a beautiful piece of historical fiction with great heart and humanity. "What kind of a girl steals the clothes from a dead man's back and runs off to join the army? A desperate one. That's who." At the end of the American Civil War, Charley - a young African-American slave from the deep south - ...Show more
Loyal Creatures by Morris Gleitzman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Historical
1914. War. Did I want to volunteer with Daisy? Course I did. When I told Dad he tried to wallop me round the head with a canvas bucket. 'You're fifteen,' he said. In the deserts of Egypt and Palestine young Frank experiences all the adventure he ever wanted, and a few things he wasn't expecting. Heartb ...Show more
Hanna (My Holocaust Story) by Goldie Alexander
$16.99 AUD
Category: Historical | Series: My Holocaust Story
Hanna Kaminsky loves gymnastics, her best friend Eva, Elza's chicken soup with dumplings and reading. But in September 1939 the happy life that Hanna has always known disappears. The Nazis have invaded Poland and are herding all Jews into ghettos in the cities. Hanna's family are forced into hiding in t ...Show more
Evan's Gallipoli by Kerry Greenwood
$15.99 AUD
Category: Historical
The gripping story of an incredible journey behind enemy lines - told in diary form. Fourteen-year-old Evan Warrender travels with his father to the Dardenelles, where they intend to provide succour to the Allied soldiers. When they are captured by the Turks, they are launched into an epic journey, livi ...Show more
We Played with Fire by Catherin Barter
$18.99 AUD
Category: Historical
Maggie has witnessed impossible things. But no one believes her, and now her family has taken her away to spend the winter upstate in a remote, freezing farmhouse. Bored and angry, Maggie and her younger sister Kate start to play tricks: rapping on the floorboards above their parents' bedroom, cracking ...Show more