Middle Reader 8-12 > Historical Fiction
A genre of stories that didn’t really happen, but are based on events in history. They're perfect for kids who love to explore the past, and are often full of big adventures.
Underground: Marsupial Outlaws and Other Rebels of Australia's War in Vietnam by Mirranda Burton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Led by an unconscientiously objecting wombat registered for military service during Australia's war in Vietnam, Underground digs tunnels through a chapter of Australian history that many have attempted to bury. Why would a wombat be registered for war? It's 1965, and an old Tattersalls barrel starts rol ...Show more
Night Ride into Danger (PB) by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
From one of Australia's best-loved storytellers comes an exciting mystery adventure story set in 1874 about the Cobb & Co. It's a dark and dangerous journey for the Cobb and Co night mail coach, but when his coach-driver father is injured, young Jem Donovan must take the reins.Surely a boy like Jem ...Show more
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
$16.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The book that inspired Steven Spielberg's Hollywood blockbuster movie and an internationally acclaimed stage show ...it can only be Michael Morpurgo's War Horse. In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. Bombarded by artillery ...Show more
Heroes of the Secret Underground by Susanne Gervay
$16.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
A timely and powerful time-slip story inspired by the author's family in Budapest during the Holocaust Louie lives with her brothers, Bert and Teddy, in a hotel run by their grandparents. It is one of Sydney's grand old buildings, rich in history ... and in secrets. When a rose-gold locket, once thoug ...Show more
The Valley of Lost Secrets by Lesley Parr
$14.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
September 1939. When Jimmy is evacuated to a small village in Wales, it couldn't be more different from London. Green, quiet and full of strangers, he instantly feels out of place. But then he finds a skull hidden in a tree, and suddenly the valley is more frightening than the war. Who can Jimmy trust? ...Show more
Runner by Robert Newton
$19.99 AUD
Category: Historical Fiction
Charlie's father is dead, and although his mother insists he stay in school, Charlie has no patience for the classroom. All he wants is to make money, to give his mother and baby brother a better life. So when he catches the eye of Squizzy Taylor, a notorious mobster, and is offered a job as Squizzy's c ...Show more
The Schoolmaster's Daughter by Jackie French
$17.99 AUD
Category: Middle Reader 8-12
Drawing on her own family history, this is a story from Jackie French about education in Colonial Australia - and how women once had to fight for their right to it. January 1901Sharks circle a stranded ship as a young girl and her family stagger from the waves ...Rescued by a Pacific Islander boy named ...Show more
Now (#6 Felix & Zelda) by Morris Gleitzman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Advanced Reader 10+ | Series: Felix & Zelda | Reading Level: very good
Once I didn't know about my grandfather Felix's scary childhood.Then I found out what the Nazis did to his best friend Zelda.Now I understand why Felix does the things he does.At least he's got me.My name is Zelda too.This is our story. Shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction prize 2010.Shortlis ...Show more
Pennies For Hitler by Jackie French
$16.99 AUD
Category: Middle Reader 8-12 | Series: Matilda | Reading Level: very good
It's 1939, and for Georg, son of an English academic living in Germany, life is full of cream cakes and loving parents. It is also a time when his teacher measures the pupils' heads to see which of them have the most 'Aryan'- shaped heads. But when a university graduation ceremony turns into a pro-Nazi ...Show more