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  Surviving Hitler

  by Andrea Warren

  In 1942 fifteen-year-old Jack Mandelbaum was torn from his family in Poland and sent to a Nazi concentration camp. This is Jack's own true story of how he fought against starvation, disease and the insane brutality of the Holocaust. Jack is sent to a series of different camps, each one as horrific as the other. He soon befriends Moniek, another prisoner, and together they learn to fight through adversity and are... (more)
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  Chinese Cinderella (New Century Readers)

  by Adeline Yen Mah

  Chinese Cinderella- the story of an unwanted daughter.This great book is based on a true story about a little girl who is not loved nor cared for by her family.The family think this due to how her mother died at birth to Jing-Ling.When Jing-ling is sent of to boarding school, her family is happy,but is she?
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  William Shakespeare (British History Makers)

  by Leon Ashworth

  The life of William Shakespeare is described in this book, which is part of the British History Makers series on famous figures who shaped historical events. Through the use of artwork, documentary evidence, and fact-filled information panels, a rounded picture is given of the turbulent time in which he lived.
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  by Wendy Thompson

  Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1770. Just over two decades later, the whole of Europe watched, horrifed, as first the King, then the Queen of France went to the guillotine. The Age of Revolution had arrived. Beethoven's music reflects the violence, passion, struggle and upheaval, as well as the quest for personal and spiritual fulfilment, of those times. By placing Beethoven within his historical and social... (more)
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  Heinemann Profiles: Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Heinemann Profiles)

  by Sean Connolly, Richard Tames, John Rowley, Rob Alcraft, Haydn Middleton

  This title is part of a series examining the lives of people who have contributed to the history of the 20th century. Each book tells the life story of an important individual and analyzes their aims and achievements. This title gives an insight into the life of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
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  Galileo

  by Stillman Drake

  In a startling reinterpretation of Galileo's trial, Stillman Drake advances the hypothesis that Galileo's prosecution and condemnation by the Inquisition was caused not by his defiance of the Church but by the hostility of contemporary philosophers. Galileo's own beautifully lucid arguments are used in this volume to show how his scientific method was utterly divorced from the Aristotelian approach to physics; it... (more)
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  The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street

• Elizabeth Fry and the Forger's Daughter (Historical Storybooks)Roy Apps

  

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  Elizabeth Fry and the Forger's Daughter (Historical Storybooks)

  by Roy Apps

  A book in a series in which historical events and personalities are presented in an exciting story form for young readers. Ideal as a starting point for further study at Key Stage 1.
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  Edmund Spenser (Writers and Their Works)

  by Colin Burrow

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  Roald Dahl (Heinemann Profiles)

  by Haydn Middleton

  A study of Roald Dahl which forms part of a series examining the lives of 20th-century celebrities. Each book tells the story of one person and analyzes his or her aims and achievements, using written and pictorial sources.
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  Lewis Hamilton: My Story

  by Lewis Hamilton

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  The Emperor Constantine (Phoenix Giants)

  by Michael Grant

  Fascinating and readable biography by a great populariser of classical civilisation. Directly responsible for momentuos transformwations of the Imperial scene, Constantine will always be famous as the 1st Christian Emperor of Rome, and for refounding ancient Byzantium as Constantinople - events which rank amongst the most significant in history. In art, politics, economics and particularly in religion, the life of... (more)
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  History's Monsters

  by Simon Sebag Montefiore

  Some devised methods of torture cruel beyond belief, some killed members of their own families, others ordered the murders of millions of innocents; some were admired statesmen, some were maniacs - others simply butchers. Vlad Dracul, prince of Wallachia, impaled his enemies on a forest of bloody stakes; the Byzantine empress Irene had her son's eyes gouged out; the Crusaders massacred 70,000 innocent Muslims and... (more)
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  The Diary of Anne Frank: The Play (Dramascripts)

  by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Anne Frank

  There are 10 reading parts.
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  Homage to Catalonia

  by George Orwell

  In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fascists. This famous account describes the war and Orwell’s experiences. Introduction by Lionel Trilling.
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  Marco Polo for Kids

  by Janis Herbert

  The Far East comes alive in this activity book centered on Marco Polo's journey to China from Venice along the 13th-century Silk Road. Kids will join Marco as he travels by caravan through vast deserts and over steep mountain ranges, stopping in exotic cities and humble villages, until at last he arrives at the palace of the Kublai Khan. Woven throughout the tale are 21 activities that highlight the diverse... (more)
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  Gorillas in the Mist

  by Dian Fossey

  One of the most important books ever written about our connection to the natural world, GORILLAS IN THE MIST is the riveting account of Dian Fossey's thirteen years in a remote African rain forest with the greatest of the great apes. Fossey's extraordinary efforts to ensure the future of the rain forest and its remaining mountain gorillas are captured in her own words and in candid photographs of this fascinating... (more)
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  Tis: A Memoir

  by Frank McCourt

  Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found its place on the literary... (more)
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  Winston Churchill (British History Makers S.)

  by Leon Ashworth

  British History Makers is a series designed to introduce young readers to the lives of the movers and shakers in British history. Each account is really accessible, containing all the facts mingled with colourful contemporary accounts of them, as well as a magnificent array of photographs and documentary evidence. All accounts not only feature the individual of the title, but also contrast their lives with those... (more)
• Who's Who in Early Medieval England 1066-1272 (Who's Who in British History)Christopher Tyerman

  

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  Who's Who in Early Medieval England 1066-1272 (Who's Who in British History)

  by Christopher Tyerman

  This is part of an eight-volume series providing short biographies of men and women from Roman to Victorian times. Each entry places the subject in the context of their age and evokes what was distinctive and interesting about their personality and achievement. The biographies are arranged in a broadly chronological rather than alphabetical sequence so that the reader may easily browse from one contemporary to the... (more)