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CARRIE’S WAR NINA BAWDEN HORRIBLY FAMOUS: HENRY Penguin VIII AND HIS WICKED WIVES Bombs are falling on London when ALAN MACDONALD Carrie and Nick are evacuated to a Scholastic remote Welsh village. How will they A hilarious look at a king who is adjust to their strange new life? most definitely horribly famous. Yes, the chubby one with a ginger beard, a chopping block and six very unlucky wives…

HORRIBLE HISTORIES: THE DANGER ZONE: AVOID FRIGHTFUL FIRST WORLD BEING A SECRET AGENT IN WAR THE SECOND WORLD WAR , MARTIN BROWN JOHN MALAM Scholastic Book House From foot soldiers drowning in Step into the shoes of a British mud to fighter pilots being blown Forces secret agent on a risky out of the sky, the First World War wartime sabotage mission behind was absolutely hideous from start enemy lines! to finish. So if you like your history horrible, this is the book for you! CHARLIE’S WAR: REMEMBERING WORLD WAR WAR GAME ONE MICHAEL FOREMAN MICK MANNING Pavilion Franklin Watts This picture book about a trench Mick Manning’s brilliantly football game in No Man’s Land illustrated account of his shows the First World War in grandfather’s experiences during powerful simplicity. World War One, from the trenches and the guns to letters home and ONE BOY’S WAR the songs the soldiers shared. LYNN HUGGINS-COOPER Frances Lincoln THE WORST CHILDREN’S Sydney runs away to join the army JOBS IN HISTORY —and finds himself in a frontline TONY ROBINSON trench, a very long way from home. Macmillan Sydney’s journal and letters home Chimney-sweeping, turnip-picking combine with colour pictures to tell or digging down a mine. In the a moving personal story. nasty past, kids weren’t spared hard labour! A look at the horrid side of HORRIBLY FAMOUS: history from Tony Robinson. AND HER ENORMOUS EMPIRE ALAN MACDONALD MY FRIEND THE ENEMY Scholastic DAN SMITH She was not amused… but YOU Chicken House definitely will be when you read this What if in wartime you found a barmy biography of Queen Vic’s hurt enemy pilot and he became life. Dressing up, gambling and your forbidden friend? A gripping running a massive empire: she’s full Second World War adventure. of horribly funny surprises.

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