Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction

It takes more than historical facts to help readers connect to a part of history that is so diabolical and devastating.

Never try to open the locked doors.

When a teenage priestess, living 5,000 years ago in Ancient Egypt, connects with Rhory, an English schoolboy visiting the British Museum, she puts herself and him in grave danger.

It's 1834 in England, and Lydia Maddison and her family have nowhere to go.

It is 1665 and the plague has hit the city of London.

Blitz is set in World War Two, when Martin is evacuated to Winchester.

No wonder Rico hates his Mayan culture.

It is 2nd September 1666 in London and Martin Outwich is suddenly awoken by the sounds of fire.

Scotland, 1692.

The year is 1665 and plague has come to the city of London.

It's during World War II, and Martin has been evacuated to the country.

A cleverly interlinked novel in four parts which can be read in twenty-four different ways.

The thrilling conclusion to Ryan Graudin's Carnegie Medal 2017 nominated alternative history and fantasy epic, WOLF BY WOLF.

What would the world look like if the Nazis had won the war?

Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2016, this mesmerising and mysterious novel by Printz Award-winning author Marcus Sedgwick is written in four cleverly interlinked parts and can be read in 24 different ways.

Enter the Grishaverse with the third book of the Shadow & Bone bestselling trilogy and international Netflix sensation by no.

Enter the Grishaverse with the first book of the Shadow & Bone bestselling trilogy and international Netflix sensation by no.

Enter the Grishaverse with the second book of the Shadow & Bone bestselling trilogy and international Netflix sensation by no.

The brilliant follow up to Diary Of Dorkius Maximus.

Dorkius Maximus is a young boy growing up in ancient Rome.

ALL ABOARD THE TRAIN TO PARIS!

A fast-paced historical mystery adventure for readers aged 9+ years, with gorgeous Edwardian period detail.

Third and final instalment of this critically acclaimed young adult alternative historical series that began with Front Lines and Silver StarsIt's 1944, and it feels to everyone like the war will never end.

You cannot fight me, river daughter.

Classic magic and mystery from one of Britain's best-loved authors of fantasy adventure.

A classic and heartfelt war story from War Horse author and former Children's Laureate, Michael Morpurgo.

When the War of 1812 breaks out between the British in Canada and the United States, eighteen-year-old Billy Green is an expert woodsman with romantic ideas of combat.

Eric Zweig is a managing editor with Dan Diamond & Associates, consulting publishers to the National Hockey League.

In 1755, on the eve of the Seven Years' War, fifteen-year-old Nola and her Acadian parents face expulsion from Grand Pry the British.

Commended for the 2011 Best Books for Kids and Teens Robin Starveling, aka Noah Vaile, is scooped off the streets of seventeenth-century Bristol, England, and dragged onboard a ship bound for Virginia by the murderous William Thatcher, who needs a servant with no past and no future to aid him in a nefarious plot to steal gold.

Commended for the 2011 Best Books for Kids and Teens Living in grim Depression-era Toronto with her actress mother, Frannie, Ivy Chalmers has never met her father.

Although it is 1969 and the end of a decade that has brought tremendous social change even in southweatern Ontario, 14-year-old Annie Ward has experienced little of "e;love, peace, and understanding.

Short-listed for the 2001 Silver Birch Award, How did we get to be US?

Bridget Quinlan is a spirited 13-year-old when the Irish potato famine of the 1840s shatters her life.

When the War of 1812 breaks out between the British in Canada and the United States, eighteen-year-old Billy Green is an expert woodsman with romantic ideas of combat.

Rosemary Watson and Peter McAllister think their future is clear: they're finally heading off for university.

Short-listed for the Manitoba Young Reader's Choice Award, 2010 It is 1900, and 14-year-old Bertie McCross is a newspaper boy in downtown Toronto.

2009 Word Guild Award - Winner, Young Adult FictionIn the aftermath of the 1838 rebellion in Lower Canada, Sophie Mallory's father is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment in Australia.

Although it is 1969 and the end of a decade that has brought tremendous social change even in southweatern Ontario, 14-year-old Annie Ward has experienced little of "e;love, peace, and understanding.

Runner-up for the 2009 Chocolate Lily Book Award and commended for the 2009 Best Books for Kids & Teens In 1909, 13-year-old Luc Godin arrive in British Columbia from Quebec only to discover that the house they thought they'd move into hasn't been built.

Will Skye and her family survive the Great Miramichi Fire?

Shortlisted for the 2009 Red Maple Award and commended in Best Books for Kids & Teens After a shipwreck in 1809, Peter finds himself the victim of amnesia.

After his "e;wonderful airship"e; crashes near St.

"e;Startled, Mishbee gasped, frozen with horror.

Short-listed for the 2007 Ottawa Book Award for Fiction When 17-year-old Rigg and his friend Ari hang a marauding wolf in the wilds of medieval Greenland, they get much more than they bargained for: a hint of werewolves, glimpses of human sacrifice to the old Norse gods, and an encounter with a resourceful native girl that changes their lives forever.

2006 Word Guild Award - Winner, Young Adult Fiction Sophie Mallory's American family knows everything about fighting the British.

Commended for the 2004 Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice Selection, short-listed for the 2005 Red Maple Award and Rocky Mountain Book Award When the Armenians of Turkey are marched into the desert to die in 1915, Mariam is rescued by her Turkish friend Rustem, and lives with mixed acceptance as a guest in his father's harem.