Young Daniel Kraushaar and his friends dream of joining the Hitler Youth in 1930s Germany, but when Daniel learns his mother is Jewish his connections to the Nazis will have fateful consequences.
Historical Fiction
Historical Fiction genre
The King’s Swift Rider: A Novel On Robert The Bruce
Unwilling to fight but feeling a sense of duty, sixteen-year-old Martin joins Scotland’s rebel army as a swift rider and master of espionage for the leader, Robert the Bruce.
Freya On The Wall
Fourteen-year-old Freya, whose home has always been in East Germany, offers her view of the complex events leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Rose Blanche
A young German girl watches as the streets of her town fill with soldiers and tanks. Then, one day, she follows a truck into the woods and discovers a secret.
The African Mask
Twelve-year-old Layo, a Yoruba girl living in the area of eleventh-century Africa which is now Nigeria, attempts to reject the man who has been chosen to be her husband.
The Conch Bearer
In India, a healer invites twelve-year-old Anand to join him on a quest to return a magical conch to its safe and rightful home many hundreds of miles away, high in the Himalayan mountains.
In Flanders Fields :The Story Of The Poem By John Mccrae
Presents the context for the writing of the famous poem by the Canadian medical officer, John McCrae, who attended injured soldiers in Flanders during the First World War.
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First Apple
The author describes 1940s China and her quest, as a nine-year-old girl, to buy a precious apple for her grandmother’s birthday. By the author of A Day on a Shrimp Boat.
The Burnt Stick
Growing up in a missionary home run by white men, John Jagamarra, who is part aborigine and part white, misses the mother from whom he’s been separated and the culture of his own people.
Pack Of Wolves
In the forests of Belorussia in 1942 a group of disabled Russian partisans makes its way to a medical unit while being pursued by traitorous partisans, German soldiers, and vicious dogs.