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By: Simon Scarrow

ISBN: 9780141328591
Readership/Audience: Young Adult
Publication Date: Feb 2013
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2013
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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Now a member of Julius Caesar's palace, Marcus' training continues in the city of Rome. The streets are plagued by vicious gang war attacks, and Caesar must employ his own gang leader, who learns of a plot to murder him. Only Marcus can go in undercover. But he's in terrible danger.


(Paperback)

By: Simon Scarrow

ISBN: 9780141339030
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2014
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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Marcus may be free from the brutal training regime of the gladiators but he will not rest until he finds his mother. With his old friends Festus and Lupus at his side, and a letter from Caesar instructing all who cross his path to help him, he begins his journey. He is going back to the lands where he lived as a slave boy.


(Paperback)

By: Irene N. Watts

ISBN: 9780887768309
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: May 2011
Publisher: Tundra Books
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(Hardback)

By: Jennifer Robin Barr

ISBN: 9781684371785
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
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Set in Philadelphia during the Great Depression, this historical novel tells the story of a 12-year-old boy and his best friend as they attempt to stop a wall from being built at Shibe Park, home of the Philadelphia Athletics, that would block the view of the baseball field from their rooftops.


(Paperback)

By: Michael Burgan

ISBN: 9780062860354
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Includes an excerpt from: Journey to freedom, 1838.


(Paperback)

By: Sherri Winston

ISBN: 9780062860385
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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In this retelling of an episode from Uncle Tom's Cabin, the slave Eliza Harris resolves to escape with her two-year-old son across the frozen Ohio River to prevent her master from selling the boy. Includes historical notes on Harriet Beecher Stowe, slavery in America, the Fugitive slave laws, and the Underground Railroad.


(Hardback)

By: Sherri Winston

ISBN: 9780062860392
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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In this retelling of an episode from Uncle Tom's Cabin, the slave Eliza Harris resolves to escape with her two-year-old son across the frozen Ohio River to prevent her master from selling the boy. Includes historical notes on Harriet Beecher Stowe, slavery in America, the Fugitive slave laws, and the Underground Railroad.


(Hardback)

By: Pamela D. Toler

ISBN: 9780062860699
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Dec 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Pamela D. Toler

ISBN: 9780062860507
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Dec 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Regis and Kahran Bethencourt

ISBN: 9780316491174
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Mar 2025
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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This immersive, eye-catching photographic picture book from the New York Times bestselling duo, CreativeSoul, showcase Black and brown children emulating some of the Black historical figures who inspire us all!


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By: Terry Deary

ISBN: 9781472942012
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Mar 2018
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Young Acheron is a liar. Everybody knows it. But when a stranger comes to the city to announce that the Greeks have departed, leaving a special gift of a wooden horse, Acheron is suspicious. He races to tell Prince Paris about the Greek plot, but will anyone believe him


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By: Terry Deary

ISBN: 9781472942043
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Mar 2018
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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213 BC. The great inventor Archimedes has just one problem. His clumsy servant, Lydia. But when the Romans besiege Syracuse, and the Greeks turn to Archimedes for help, it is she who comes up with the answers. Of course Archimedes is a lion in the eyes of the folk of Syracuse. He takes all the credit, but that's life for a Greek girl slave.


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By: Terry Deary

ISBN: 9781472942036
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Mar 2018
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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430 BC. Darius, orphaned by the plague in Athens, joins his Uncle Alcmaeon, a Spartan army general. The ruthless Spartans think him worthless until his uncle falls sick and only Darius can find a cure. Now a hero, his uncle offers Spartan opulence but Darius finds the brutal Sparta too much and wants to return to Athens.


(Hardback)

By: Michael Datcher

ISBN: 9780593429334
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Two stories about Harlem; the first chronicles the adventures of a four-year-old Black girl named Harlem, and the second describes the history of the New York neighborhood of Harlem and the start of America's Great Black Migration.


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By: Jacqueline Wilson

ISBN: 9780552576703
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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Cosy up for Christmas with this brand-new festive story, starring everyone's favourite Victorian foundling, Hetty Feather!

An unexpected gift leads to trouble for Hetty on Christmas Day at the Foundling Hospital, and the dreaded Matron Bottomly is delighted to have an excuse to exclude Hetty from the festive celebrations.


(Hardback)

By: Kelly Starling Lyons

ISBN: 9780399160011
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Dec 2012
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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A runaway slave during the Civil War, Hope's father returns after the Emancipation Proclamation as a member of the U.S. Colored Troops. Affectingly written and gorgeously illustrated, this poignant story captures a significant moment in American history. Full color.


(Hardback)

By: Jerdine Nolen

ISBN: 9781665924719
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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When a slave-owning family decides to go to California to mine for gold, twelve-year-old Clementine, whose mother calls her Hope, travels with them, which ultimately leads her on a journey to freedom.


(Hardback)

By: T. Neill Anderson

ISBN: 9781580895200
Readership/Audience: Young Adult
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.
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The fourth book in the Horrors of History historical fiction series follows several characters in Colorado in 1914, just before and during the Ludlow Massacre, which was an attack by the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp guards on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families.


(Hardback)

By: T. Neill Anderson

ISBN: 9781580895163
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 24th February 2014
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.
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"The burning of Columbia, 1865"--Jacket.


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By: Whitney Sanderson

ISBN: 9780307976352
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jan 2013
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Born on a windy hill off the coast of Ireland in 1917, a Connemara pony named Darcy is sold to a farm family and trained to pull a cart and plow.


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By: Alexander Cordell

ISBN: 9781473603684
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 11th September 2014
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The story of the Mortymer family continues in this sequel to the international bestseller The Rape of the Fair Country


(Paperback)

By: Julia Gray

ISBN: 9781839130076
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2020
Publisher: Andersen Press Ltd
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(Hardback)

By: Veronica Chambers

ISBN: 9780316500166
Readership/Audience: Young Adult
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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A sweeping historical novel that will tell the story of Ida B. Wells from her teen years, up through her becoming an investigative journalist and civil rights crusader without peer, by the New York Times bestselling author of Finish the Fight.


(Hardback)

By: Dana Schwartz

ISBN: 9780349433394
Readership/Audience: Young Adult
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The eagerly-anticipated sequel to Dana Schwartz's Reese's Book Club Winter YA Pick and No.1 New York Times bestseller Anatomy

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