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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 18 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Shadow by Michael Morpurgo
    Shadow - by Michael Morpurgo

    £7.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780008638566 | ISBN 10: 000863856x

    A powerful novel from Michael Morpurgo, the nation's favourite storyteller...   Never have Aman and his mother needed a friend more than when a Springer Spaniel appears - thin and war-ravaged - in the mouth of their Afghan cave. Nursed back to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Yellow Butterfly: A Story from Ukraine by Oleksandr Shatokhin
    Yellow Butterfly: A Story from Ukraine - by Oleksandr Shatokhin

    £15.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781636550640 | ISBN 10: 1636550649

    A wordless picture book portrayal of war seen through the eyes of a young girl who finds hope in the symbolism of yellow butterflies against the background of a pure blue sky.   Oleksandr Shatokhin has created a deeply emotional response to the c ... more

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  • Cover image of book You Don
    You Don't Know What War Is: The Diary of a Young Girl From Ukraine - by Yeva Skalietska

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526659934 | ISBN 10: 152665993x

    *Featured on This Morning, Steph's Packed Lunch, Radio 4: Today and Channel 4 News*   Everyone knows the word 'war'. But very few understand what it truly means. When you find you have to face it, you feel totally lost, walled in by fright and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Maya And Her Friends: A Story About Tolerance and Acceptance to Support the Children of Ukraine by Larysa Denysenko and Masha Foya
    Maya And Her Friends: A Story About Tolerance and Acceptance to Support the Children of Ukraine - by Larysa Denysenko and Masha Foya

    £12.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781800784147 | ISBN 10: 1800784147

    ALL THE PUBLISHER'S PROFITS WILL BE DONATED TO CHARITIES HELPING TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN OF UKRAINE.  "I wrote this book about different children from different Ukrainian families in 2017, when Russia had conquered Crimea and temporarily occupied ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Week at World
    The Week at World's End - by Emma Carroll

    £7.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571332830 | ISBN 10: 0571332838

    The hotly anticipated new standalone from the Queen of Historical Fiction – now in paperback!  Britain, 1962  ‘Who are you?’ I asked. ‘You don’t know who I am? You mean, it’s not been on the news?’ The girl glanced fro ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Day War Came by Nicola Davies, illustrated by Rebecca Cobb
    The Day War Came - by Nicola Davies, illustrated by Rebecca Cobb

    £6.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781406382938 | ISBN 10: 1406382930

    A powerful and necessary picture book – the journey of a child forced to become a refugee when war destroys everything she has ever known.  Imagine if, on an ordinary day, war came. Imagine it turned your town to rubble. Imagine going on a long ... more

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  • Cover image of book Gandhi for Kids: His Life and Ideas, with 21 Activities by Ellen Mahoney
    Gandhi for Kids: His Life and Ideas, with 21 Activities - by Ellen Mahoney

    £15.50   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781613731222 | ISBN 10: 1613731221

    With his wire-rimmed glasses, homespun cloths, and walking stick, Mohandas Gandhi is an international symbol of nonviolence, freedom, simplicity, and peace. Tracing Gandhi's evolution from a shy boy in India to a courageous, world-traveling spiritual ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Knight Who Wouldn
    The Knight Who Wouldn't Fight - by Helen and Thomas Docherty

    £6.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781407163482 | ISBN 10: 1407163485

    Leo the mouse isn't like the other knights. While they like fighting, he'd rather read a book. Leo's parents are keen to turn him into a proper knight, so they pack him off on a mission to tame a dragon. But Leo knows that books are mightier than swo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Boy at the Top of the Mountain by John Boyne
    The Boy at the Top of the Mountain - by John Boyne

    £7.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780552573504 | ISBN 10: 0552573507

    When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of the German mountains. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1935 and the Second World War is fast a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hidden: True Stories of Children Who Survived World War II by Marcel Prins and Peter Henk Steenhuis
    Hidden: True Stories of Children Who Survived World War II - by Marcel Prins and Peter Henk Steenhuis

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781407149042 | ISBN 10: 1407149040

    Holocaust tales of children who hid to stay alive, collected by a top filmmaker and journalist.   It’s hard to get your head around, but Anne Frank was one of thousands. Now fourteen more Holocaust tales are finally told. How many children were hi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Phoenix by S.F. Said, illustrated by Dave McKean
    Phoenix - by S.F. Said, illustrated by Dave McKean

    £6.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780552571340 | ISBN 10: 0552571342

    A boy with unprecedented power must turn to the terrifying Alien enemies of humanity to discover his true nature and bring peace to a galaxy at war.   Lucky lives a relatively normal life on a remote moon of the planet Aries One, safe from the ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Day My Father Became a Bush by Joke van Leeuwen
    The Day My Father Became a Bush - by Joke van Leeuwen

    £6.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781877579165 | ISBN 10: 1877579165

    The Day My Father Became a Bush is a delightful and poignant story of wartime Europe.  Before he becomes a bush, Toda’s father is a pastry chef. He gets up at the crack of dawn to bake twenty different sorts of pastries and three kinds of c ... 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 Run Rabbit Run by Barbara Mitchelhill
    Run Rabbit Run - by Barbara Mitchelhill

    £6.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849392495 | ISBN 10: 1849392498

    When Lizzie's dad refuses to fight in the Second World War, the police come looking to arrest him. Desperate to stay together, Lizzie and her brother Freddie go on the run with him, hiding from the police in idyllic Whiteway.   But when their ... more

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  • Cover image of book City of Ghosts by Bali Rai
    City of Ghosts - by Bali Rai

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780552556019 | ISBN 10: 0552556017

    It's 1919 and Amritsar is a city on the brink of rebellion. Riots, violence and tension spill onto the streets...   Bissen Singh fought bravely for the British Empire during World War One. Now he waits patiently for news from England.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Peace Book by Todd Parr
    The Peace Book - by Todd Parr

    £5.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780316043496 | ISBN 10: 0316043494

    Peace is making new friends Peace is giving shoes to someone who needs them Peace is a growing garden Peace is having enough pizza in the world for everyone   The Peace Book delivers positive and hopeful messages of peace in an accessible, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Why the Whales Came by Michael Morpurgo
    Why the Whales Came - by Michael Morpurgo

    £6.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781405229258 | ISBN 10: 140522925x

    Gracie and her friend Daniel have always been warned to stay away from the Birdman and his side of the island. But then they find a message in the sand and discover the Birdman is not who they thought. They build up a lovely friendship with him, but ... more

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