Children's / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction

Margaret Thursday answers an advertisement for an actress who can appear to be 11 years old. Her subsequent successes on the stage bring with them the unwanted drama of a kidnap rumour. Day and night she is closely protected - but not closely enough.

Hack and Whack babysit a toddler - Fire Hazard - and discover to their horror that they might not be the worst Vikings in the village after all! Then they manage to secure an exciting invite to feast with the visiting king, but discover that it's three days of having to be on their best behaviour...

Huw always pops in to see his nan on the way home from school - she bakes him cakes and never fusses about his homework. And so it's a great shock when, one day, Nan forgets his name, and calls him Hywel - the long-unmentionable name of her late brother. As Nan slowly slips into the grip of demen...

Fin is a foundling growing up in the Hackney marshes, living in a tiny attic and selling leeches for a living. When she accidentally discovers she is the long-lost child of a rich Polish family called the Kaminskis, she is swept up into a supernatural adventure where she has to use everything she...

Nastia is no traitor. She is a daring pilot, the daughter of revolutionaries, and now, as the Second World War descents on Russia, she must fight to save the glorious Motherland. But all is not as it seems, and when the battles begin, secrets are revealed and everything that she once knew is chal...

Sometimes I was jealous of the monster of Frankenstein. I grew up believing my father cared more for him than he did for me. And was I wrong? Maggie Walton's father has dedicated his life to a single pursuit: hunting down the monster created by Victor Frankenstein. It has cost Maggie and her fami...

This story is part of 'Reading Champion', a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE). Freya doesn't always feel brave, but she tries her best. And when she sneaks away on a Vik...

This story is part of 'Reading Champion', a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE). Freya doesn't always feel brave, but she tries her best. And when she sneaks away on a Vik...

When Sidney Dashworth's school is evacuated to a huge stately home in the countryside, she thinks she's going to spend the war being very bored. At least her brother must be having fun, flying his Spitfire all over France! But soon Sidney and a housemaid called Nancy discover that the Earl is up ...

It's a cold winter during the Great Frost of 1683. Thomasina and Anne are the best of friends, one running her father's sweet shop and the other the apprentice at the family apothecary - together they sell their goods on the frozen River Thames. When a family tragedy turns Thomasina's world upsid...