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World War One: Books for Children and Young Adults -

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Related booklists: Peace & War - Books for Children, History - Books for Young Adults, History - Books for Children, Peace and War - Books for Young Adults, The Holocaust - Books for Children & Young Adults, World War Two: Books for Children and Young Adults,

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 12 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Skylarks
    The Skylarks' War - by Hilary McKay

    £6.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781509894963 | ISBN 10: 1509894969

    Winner of the Costa Children’s Book Award 2018.  The Skylarks' War is a beautiful story following the loves and losses of a family growing up against the harsh backdrop of World War One, from the award-winning Hilary McKay.  Clarry and her ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Anty-War Story by Tony Ross
    An Anty-War Story - by Tony Ross

    £11.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781783446100 | ISBN 10: 1783446102

    The only ant with his own name, Douglas is born into the wonderful Antworld and dreams of one day joining the line to hunt out food. But his superiors have other plans for him: Douglas is to be a soldier. They tell him his job is all about parading, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Five Children on the Western Front (Inspired by E. Nesbit
    Five Children on the Western Front (Inspired by E. Nesbit's Five Children and It Stories) - by Kate Saunders

    £6.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571342327 | ISBN 10: 0571342329

    An incredible, heart-wrenching sequel to E. Nesbit's Five Children and It, set on the eve of the First World War.  The five children have grown up - war will change their lives for ever.   Cyril is off to fight, Anthea is at art college, Robert i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Only Remembered by Michael Morpurgo, illustrated by Ian Beck
    Only Remembered - by Michael Morpurgo, illustrated by Ian Beck

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780552574051 | ISBN 10: 0552574058

    2014 will mark one hundred years since the outbreak of the First World War. To mark the date, this beautiful anthology will collect favourite extracts, images and poems from some of the UK's leading cultural, political and literary figures.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Listen to the Moon by Michael Morpurgo
    Listen to the Moon - by Michael Morpurgo

    £6.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780007339655 | ISBN 10: 0007339658

    May, 1915.   Alfie and his fisherman father find a girl on an uninhabited island in the Scillies – injured, thirsty, lost… and with absolutely no memory of who she is, or how she came to be there. She can say only one word: Lucy.   Wher ... more

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  • Cover image of book Five Children on the Western Front (Inspired by E. Nesbit
    Five Children on the Western Front (Inspired by E. Nesbit's 'Five Children and It' Stories) - by Kate Saunders

    £10.99   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780571310951 | ISBN 10: 0571310958

    Have you ever wondered what happened to the Five Children and It characters when the First World War began?   Cyril is off to fight, Anthea is at art college, Robert is a Cambridge scholar and Jane is at high school. The Lamb is the grown up a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stories of World War One by Tony Bradman (Editor)
    Stories of World War One - by Tony Bradman (Editor)

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408330357 | ISBN 10: 1408330350

    A must-have anthology featuring stories by award-winning, bestselling authors, to commemorate the centenary of World War One.  Tales to remember yesterday's fallen - from today's bestselling authors.   Compiled by Tony Bradman, this collection of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tony Robinson
    Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders - World War I - by Tony Robinson

    £5.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781447227717 | ISBN 10: 1447227719

    Everything you need to know about World War I!  Tony Robinson takes you on a headlong gallop through time, pointing out all the most important, funny, strange, amazing, entertaining, smelly and disgusting bits about World War I. It's history, b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stay Where You are and Then Leave by John Boyne
    Stay Where You are and Then Leave - by John Boyne

    £10.99   hardback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780857532930 | ISBN 10: 0857532936

    The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a spec ... more

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  • Cover image of book When the Guns Fall Silent by James Riordan
    When the Guns Fall Silent - by James Riordan

    £6.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780192735706 | ISBN 10: 0192735705

    Jack, standing among the war graves, sees a face he recognizes. Suddenly, it's 1914 again and he's a young lad back in the trenches. Visions of killing and misery come to him with horrible clarity. But then Jack remembers too the incredible moment wh ... more

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  • Cover image of book War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
    War Horse - by Michael Morpurgo

    £6.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781405215879 | ISBN 10: 1405215879

    From master storyteller, Michael Morpurgo comes an incredibly moving story about one horse's experience in the deadly chaos of the first world war.  In 1914, Joey, a young farm horse, is sold to the army and thrust into the midst of the war on t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Best Christmas Present in the World by Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman
    The Best Christmas Present in the World - by Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman

    £5.99   hardback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781405215183 | ISBN 10: 1405215186

    Echoes of Christmas 1914 in the trenches call to the present day when a letter found by chance in an antique desk brings one soldier's experience hauntingly to life. Writing home from the front, the soldier has an extraordinary story to tell... &nbs ... more

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