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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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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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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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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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The Girl Who Said No to the Nazis: Sophie Scholl and the Plot Against Hitler - by Haydn Kaye

£6.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781782692751 | ISBN 10: 1782692754

In 1942, a young woman named Sophie Scholl arrives in Munich to begin her studies at university. Reunited with her beloved brother Hans, a medical student, she finds new friends in a group of young Germans united in their passion for jazz music, danc ... more
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Hamid's Story: A Journey from Eritrea - by Andy Glynne, illustrated by Tom Senior

£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780750292818 | ISBN 10: 0750292814

This picture book captures a real-life account of a young boy's journey from Eritrea to seek asylum in a new country. This picture book tells the story of 10-year-old refugee Hamid who flees Eritrea with his mother to escape the war and thre ... more
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Wolf Hollow - by Lauren Wolk

£6.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780552574297 | ISBN 10: 0552574295

Growing up in the shadows cast by two world wars, Annabelle has lived a mostly quiet, steady life in her small Pennsylvania town. Until the day new student Betty Glengarry walks into her class. Betty quickly reveals herself to be cruel and manipulati ... more
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Gorilla Dawn - by Gill Lewis

£6.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780192739186 | ISBN 10: 0192739182

Imara and Bobo are two children living with a band of rebel soldiers in the African jungle. When an orphaned gorilla is brought to their camp they swear to protect it. But in their war-ravaged world, can they ever find true safety? ... more
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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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Little Manfred - by Michael Morpurgo

£6.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780007491636 | ISBN 10: 0007491638

A heart-lifting, heartbreaking story by Michael Morpurgo, the second-biggest children�s author in the UK.� In the Imperial War Museum is a wooden Dachshund, carved by a German prisoner of war for the children of the British family with which he st ... more
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Shadow - by Michael Morpurgo

£6.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780007339617 | ISBN 10: 0007339615

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 bac ... more
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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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War Boy: A Wartime Childhood - by Michael Foreman

£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781843650874 | ISBN 10: 1843650878

'I woke up when the bomb came through the roof. It came through at an angle, overflew my bed by inches, bounced up over my mother's bed, hit the mirror, dropped into the grate and exploded up the chimney.' The Second World War is an ... more
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War and Peas - by Michael Foreman

£6.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781842700839 | ISBN 10: 1842700839

King Lion is sad because it has not rained in his country for too long, and now not ony will nothing grow, but also the land is too hard to dig. He decides to ask his rich (fat) neighbour for help. But he is mistaken for a beggar and a robber, and is ... more
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