Angel of Grasmere – Tom Palmer

Signs of the war were everywhere now. There was a concrete pillbox on the Grasmere to Keswick road. It had narrow slits in the walls so that soldiers could shoot out but not be shot back at. Road signs that had once directed tourists to Ambleside and Windermere had been removed to confuse the enemy.

I Survived: The Battle of D-Day, 1944 – Lauren Tarshis

Paul Colbert’s French village has been under Nazi occupation for years: his Jewish best friend is missing and his teacher was killed for allegedly being part of the Resistance. While trying to find a way to treat his mum for her birthday, Paul discovers an American paratrooper in a tree. Is he the key to

Signs of Survival – Renee Hartman & Joshua M. Greene

“Why are you waking me up?” I asked him. He just kept kissing me and hugging me. I didn’t know that this would be the last time I would ever see my father. I have always regretted that I was sleepy and didn’t hug him back. I’m sure my father understood I didn’t mean you

The Body in the Blitz – Robin Stevens

It’s March 1941, Britain is at war and May, Eric and Nuala are being trained by a secret agency called the Ministry of Unladylike Activity. May’s big sister, and fellow agent, Hazel has arranged for them to stay on a quiet street close to the Ministry. But then a body is discovered in the basement

Wings of Glory – Dermot O’Leary

It’s 1940 and the world is at war. Linus, a swift, has always dreamed of flying with the Royal Bird Force and becoming a squadron leader. Volunteering with his sister Ava, the pair become separated and Linus reaches the airfield to train alone. Can Linus locate his missing sister and help the war effort? I

Until The Road Ends – Phil Earle

The dog drank in the adulation. To a creature like him it felt alien, but wonderful. He looked beyond the smile to everything else around it: a befreckled nose and cheek, dark brown eyes and matching hair pulled into loose, tired-looking pigtails. There appeared to be a dot of food stuck to her bottom lip,

The Ministry of Unladylike Activity – Robin Stevens

Everyone at Deepdean has stories about how hard it is to get away, and what a bad idea it is (the stories all end with the girl either getting detention for the rest of her life or falling over dead in a ditch). But actually all I had to do was leave our boarding house

The Boy Who Didn’t Want To Die – Peter Lantos

Suddenly, I remember the talk at the end of last night’s dinner. ‘What’s the place called?’ ‘It’s called a ghetto.’ My mother explained that, a long time ago, Jews were not allowed to settle in just any part of the town they liked, but were restricted to certain areas, called ghettos. Now, all Jews in

Midwinter Burning – Tanya Landman

Alfie had never been on a train before. He’d never even set foot outside his tiny corner of London. And now there were so many people crammed together into one place. Every child in the city – no, every child, in the whole, wide world! – seemed to be in the station.The air was thick

The Blitz Bus – Glen Blackwell

Emmie opened her eyes a crack – she had the uneasy feeling that often came after a bad dream, but this wasn’t a bad dream, was it? In the end, they’d given up trying to understand what happened last night and tried to sleep. Jack had joked about time travel – neither of them believing