All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
$22.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult | Reading Level: very good
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her fath ...Show more
My Mother's Eyes by Mark Wilson
$16.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
A fifteen-year-old Australian farm boy lies about his age to enlist to war and is caught up in the horrors of World War I in Egypt and on the Western Front, where 5,500 Australian troops were lost in two days at Fromelles alone. This boy's story in this unique, stirring picture book is based on true sto ...Show more
The Librarians of Rue de Picardie by Janet Skeslien Charles
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adult
Under what was left of the roof of the ruined cottage, a girl with pigtails perched on a pile of rubble, hunched over a book... 1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France, a group of women ...Show more
Holocaust by Hugh Dolan
$14.99 AUD
Category: No Category
Adolf Hitler's regime has enveloped Europe, and now David, along with all Jews in the Nazi's reach, are in danger. This extraordinary graphic novel traces the story of the rise of Nazism and Hitler's persecution of the Jews, merging historical imagery and documents with the haunting tale of David and hi ...Show more
Waiting for the Storks by Katrina Nannestad
$19.99 AUD
Category: Middle Reader
The powerful new novel from master storyteller Katrina Nannestad. I don't want to remember the truck, or the night I was taken, or the family I left behind. I am not a sad Polish girl. I am a good and happy German girl. I am. I am. I am. It's the Second World War and Himmler's Lebensborn Program is in f ...Show more
Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief: CBCA Honour Book 2022 by Katrina Nannestad
$19.99 AUD
Category: Middle Reader
Readers Cup 2023 Winner of the 2022 Indie Book Awards for Childrens Literature Award-winning writer Katrina Nannestad transports us to Russia and the Great Patriotic War and into the life of Sasha, a soldier at only six years old ... Wood splinters and Mama screams and the nearest soldier seizes her rou ...Show more
Outspoken: My fight for freedom and human rights in Afghanistan for readers of BECOMING, I AM MALALA and RISING HEART by Dr Sima Samar
$34.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
'I have three strikes against me. I'm a woman, I speak out for women and I'm Hazara, the most persecuted tribe in Afghanistan.' Dr Sima Samar has been fighting for equality and justice for most of her life. Born into a polygamous family, she learned early that girls had inferior status, and had to agree ...Show more
Nicky & Vera: A quiet hero of the Holocaust and the children he rescued by Peter Sís
$32.95 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Reading Level: near fine
In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Nicholas Winton saved the lives of almost 700 children trapped in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia--a story he never told and that remained unknown until an unforgettable TV appearance in the 1980s reunited him with some of the children he saved. Czech-American artist, MacArthu ...Show more
The History of a Difficult Child by Mihret Sibhat
$34.99 AUD
Category: Young Adult
An exhilarating and tragicomic debut novel about the indomitable child of a scorned, formerly land-owning family in the wake of Ethiopia's socialist revolution. Selam is the youngest child in a large turbulent family. Even before she is born, her omniscience animates life in a Small Town in 1980s south ...Show more
War Horse
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
Master storyteller Michael Morpurgo has adapted his much-loved novel, War Horse, for a picture book audience. This powerful book for younger readers tells the enduring story of a friendship between a boy and his horse and is a gateway to help children understand the history and deadly chaos of the Firs ...Show more
The Good Son: A Story from the First World War, Told in Miniature by Pierre-Jacques Ober
$34.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | Series: Miniature | Reading Level: Picture Book
A young WWI soldier's unauthorized visit home has dire consequences in a haunting story reimagined in miniature tableaux. About one hundred years ago, the whole world went to war. The war was supposed to last months. It lasted years. It is Christmastime, 1914, and World War I rages. A young French s ...Show more