Thrilling historical adventure set during the English peasants' revolt of 1381, by Paul Dowswell, the author of Auslander, and Wolf Children. It's 1381 and the king, Richard II, has imposed a new tax on the people. In the village of Aylesford, Tilda and her ploughman father were already struggling to make ends meet. As serfs they have no rights to move freely or earn wages for their work. Tilda is desperate for a better life than the village can offer, so when the villagers begin to rebel she...
'Did you run across that queer sort of legend about a wild goose? It was all up and down the beaches. You know how those things spring up. Some of the men I brought back were talking about it. It was supposed to have appeared at intervals the last days between Dunkirk and La Panne. If you saw it, you were eventually saved. That sort of thing'. 'Hmm, a wild goose. I saw a tame one. Dashed strange experience. Tragic in a way, too. And lucky for us. Tell you about it ...'. "The Snow Goose" is a bea...
Cuando Callaron Las Armas / When the Guns Fell Silent (Serie Roja)
by Edna Iturralde
Having escaped from an eastern European concentration camp where he has spent most of his life, a twelve-year-old boy struggles to cope with an entirely strange world as he flees northward to freedom in Denmark.
Kingdom by the Sea (Lythway Children's Large Print Books) (Collins Modern Classics)
by Robert Westall
During World War II twelve-year-old Harry and a stray dog travel through war-torn England in search of safety.
Journey Through the Unified Field
by Col. Cassie Barlow, USAF (ret) and Sue Hill Norrod
War Comes to Willy Freeman (Arabus Family Saga, #1)
by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
A free thirteen-year-old black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears.
Life in their Pennsylvania hometown changes for Jubal Shoemaker and his family when his older brother witnesses to his Quaker beliefs by becoming a conscientious objector during World War II.
Military Special Forces in Action (Set) (Military Special Forces in Action)
Caroline Takes a Chance (American Girls Collection: Caroline 1812) (American Girl: Beforever)
by Kathleen Ernst
Cai, a thief in seventh-century Constantinople, finds himself held captive on a trading ship bound for Britain--the home his father, a ruthless barbarian assassin, fled long ago--where he discovers that his Anglish captors know more about the secrets of his family than he does.
The award-winning illustrator of Eric the Viking and Nicobobinus looks back on his own wartime childhood, in this book which won the Kate Greenaway Medal 1990. His illustrations evoke the horror and beauty of blazing buildings and the comforts of childhood amid the shortages.
Beautifully illustrated and undeniably moving, this is the story of a little Afghan girl's dreams of peace. Her country wracked by war, the little girl takes refuge in her imagination as it drifts toward the idea of peace for her people and for her country. Her powerful dreams soon take wing and fill the homes and hearts of those around her, uniting a people in their common desire for peace. Hermosamente ilustrada e innegablemente conmovedora, ésta es la historia de los sueños de paz de una pe...