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  • A Secret Diary of the First World War

    Fact-tastic Stories from Scotland's History

    Illustrated by Darren Gate ...
    Series series Fact-tastic Stories from Scotland's History
    What was the First World War really like? Step into the boots of 14-year-old James Marchbank and experience the most important, incredible, peculiar, poignant, remarkable and revolting bits of World War 1.Inspired by the real-life diary of ... Read more

    $5.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dangerous Lives of the Jacobites

    Fact-tastic Stories from Scotland's History

    Illustrated by Darren Gate ...
    Series series Fact-tastic Stories from Scotland's History
    Who were the Jacobites and what were they fighting for? Step into the shoes of siblings Rob and Aggie, young Jacobites living in the Scottish Highlands in 1745, the year of the final Jacobite Rising.From the battlefield to the croft, each easy-to-read chapter mixes Rob and Aggie's stories with timelines, maps, diagrams and illustrations to create a fact-tastic account of the Jacobite Risings, ... Read more

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    The First World War was a war fought on a global scale: so terrible and deadly that they called it "the war to end all wars". From foot soldiers drowning in mud to fighter pilots being blown out of the sky, if you like your history horrible this is the book for you! ... Read more

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  • Horrible Histories: The Blitzed Brits

    by Terry Deary ...
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    Do your grandparents moan on about what life was like in the war? Want to know if they're telling the terrible truth? Read on to explore the horrible hardships the Blitzed Brits suffered while bombs dropped out of the sky! Find out what really happened in Dad's Army! See how to make a rude noise with a gas mask! Learn why the Brits ate chicken-fruit, sinkers and nutty! Faint at the thought of ... Read more

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  • I Am Canada: Prisoner of Dieppe

    Word War II, Alistair Morrison, Occupied France, 1942

    by Hugh Brewster ...
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    A young soldier's gritty account of "the bloodiest nine hours in Canadian military history" — the tragic Dieppe raid of WWIIAlistair "Allie" Morrison lets his friend Mackie talk him into enlisting for WWII, even though he's only 18. After months of endless training Allie's eager for battle. But his first action is not just any battle... it's the disastrous raid on the German-held port of Dieppe.He ... Read more

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  • Terrible Trenches

    by Terry Deary ...
    Illustrated by Martin Brown ...
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    From foul food to coping with legions of lice, discover all the dire details of life in the blood and mud of the First World War in Horrible Histories: Terrible Trenches (World Book Day Edition) ... from both sides of the barbed wire. Discover how your own wee could save your life, which animals wore gas masks and why Big Bertha terrified the Brits. With a bright new cover this bestselling title ... Read more

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  • Stolen Souls

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    by Andrea Cremer ...
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    Another stunning prequel set in Andrea Cremer’s internationally bestselling Nightshade universe.Learn how Bosque Mar and his terrible wraiths unleashed dark magic upon the village of Dorusduain . . . bringing terror and destruction that Jean and her younger brother Rabbie must survive.The Nightshade saga continues in Rift.Praise for RIFT“A bit different from Nightshade, this is a book for ... Read more

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  • Bonnie Dundee

    It is seventeenth-century Scotland, and the Covenanters – those wanting religious freedom from the dictates of English rule – are gathering strength. Hugh Herriott, fresh from a Covenanting background, finds himself working for redcoat Colonel Claverhouse and his Lady Jean: first as the stable-lad and in later years, as galloper to Claverhouse. The tension mounts between the two sides of the ... Read more

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  • Stories of World War One

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  • ABC, My Grannie Caught a Flea

    Scots Children's Songs and Rhymes

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  • Dear Jelly: Family Letters from the First World War

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    The moving story of two brothers who fought in the First World War through the real letters, complete with hand-drawn cartoons, they sent to their sisters. Like so many families across the world, the Semple family were split apart by the First World War. While William and Robert were fighting the Germans in France, their younger sisters, Mabel and Jelly (Eileen), had to carry on with school back ... Read more

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