Historical Fiction (Tamariki).

Get transported back to the past and learn all about history without setting foot in classroom with this selection of Historical themed fiction. You'll read about fictional, (and sometimes real) people; about how they lived and what they felt.

Updated August 21, 2024
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The wolves of Willoughby Chase
Aiken, Joan
Paper Book
1832 - a period of English History that never happened. Good King James III is on the throne and the country is ravaged by wolves which have migrated through the newly-opened Channel Tunnel. When Sylvia and Bonnie (both orphans) fall into the hands of evil Miss Slighcarp, they must use all their...
Little women
Alcott, Louisa May
Paper Book
One of the best loved books of all time.Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Lovely Meg, talented Jo, frail Beth, spoiled Amy- these are hard lessons of poverty and of growing up in New England during the Civil War. Through their...
The secret garden
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Paper Book
After losing her parents, young Mary Lennox is sent from India to live in her uncle's gloomy mansion on the wild English moors. She is lonely and has no one to play with, but one day she learns of a secret garden somewhere in the grounds that no one is allowed to enter. Then Mary uncovers an old key...
What Katy did
Coolidge, Susan
Paper Book
What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge is a classic much loved by adults and children alike. Katy Carr intends to be beautiful and beloved and as sweet as an angel one day. For now, though, her hair is forever in a tangle, her dress is always torn and she doesn't care at all for being called 'good'. But...
When Hitler stole pink rabbit
Kerr, Judith
Paper Book
This semi-autobiographical classic, written by the beloved Judith Kerr, tells the story of a Jewish family escaping Germany in the days before the Second World War.This beautiful new edition celebrates the fifty year anniversary of an adventure that Michael Morpurgo called "The most life-enhancing...
Anne of Green Gables
Montgomery, L. M.
Paper Book
Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are in for a big surprise. They're waiting for an orphan boy to help with the work at Green Gables, but a skinny red-haired girl turns up instead. Feisty and full of spirit, Anne Shirley charms her way into the Cuthbert's affection with her vivid imagination and constant...
Listen to the moon
Morpurgo, Michael
Paper Book
The stunning novel set during World War One from Michael Morpurgo, the nation's favourite storyteller and multi-million copy bestseller. May, 1915. Alfie and his fisherman father find a girl on an uninhabited island in the Scillies - injured, thirsty, lost......
The railway children
Nesbit, E.
Paper Book
When their father is sent away to prison, three London children move to the country where they keep busy preventing accidents on the nearby railway, making many new friends, and generally learning a good deal about themselves. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Pollyanna
Porter, Eleanor H.
Paper Book
When orphaned, eleven-year-old Pollyanna comes to live with austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, her philosophy of gladness brings happiness to her aunt and other unhappy members of the community.
The silver sword
Serraillier, Ian.
Ebook
Black Beauty
Sewell, Anna
Paper Book
Beauty's first memories are of a large and pleasant meadow and his mother's hope that her son will grow up gentle and good and never learn bad ways. Black Beauty's character is tested by the many hardships he experiences, but whether saving his comrades from a fire, racing to fetch help for his...
Heidi
Spyri, Johanna
Paper Book
Heidi is 5 when she is taken to live with her grandfather, in the Swiss mountains. Just as Heidi grows fond of her new family, she is taken to Frankfurt to be a companion to Clara. Although she brings joy into Clara's life, Heidi pines for her home in the mountains. Only a miracle can bring joy, but...
Treasure Island
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Paper Book
The quintessential adventure story that first established pirates in the popular imagination When a mysterious sailor dies in sinister circumstances at the Admiral Benbow inn, young Jim Hawkins stumbles across a treasure map among the dead man's possessions. But Jim soon becomes...
The eagle of the Ninth
Sutcliff, Rosemary.
Ebook
Mary Poppins
Travers, P. L.
Paper Book
The first in the famous series about the best known nanny in children's literature. Mary Poppins comes to the Banks' household like a breath of fresh air (literally). Magical and timeless storytelling.
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark
Paper Book
Huckleberry Finn had a tough life with his drunk father until an adventure with Tom Sawyer changed everything. But when Huck's dad returns and kidnaps him, he must escpe down the Mississippi river with runaway slave, Jim. They encounter trouble at every turn, from floods and gunfights to armed...
Little house on the prairie
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Paper Book
Classic tales by Laura Ingalls Wilder about life on the frontier and America's best-loved pioneer family. The sun-kissed prairie stretches out around the Ingalls family, smiling its welcome after their long, hard journey across America. But looks can be deceiving and they soon find...

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