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Anne Boleyn and Me: The Diary of Elinor Valjean, London 1525-1536 order quantity
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Author: Alison Prince
When the King came riding in on his big, black horse, a murmer went up, because his tunic was stitched with the words, DECLARE I DARE NOT. All the ladies were giggling behind their hands, and I asked Mama what it meant. Her face had turned quite pink and she said, ..Never mind.., so I asked Rosanna later. She told me the words meant the King has a new love, but he dares not say her name.But everyone knows her name, of course. It is Anne Boleyn.

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Born in Hiroshima in 1943, Sadako was the star of her school's running team, until the dizzy spells started and she was forced to face the hardest race of her life - the race against time.


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Author: Edwidge Danticat
With her signature narrative grace, Edwidge Danticat brings Haiti's beautiful queen Anacaona to life. Queen Anacaona was the wife of one of her island's rulers, and a composer of songs and poems, making her popular among her people. Haiti was relatively quiet until the Spanish conquistadors discovered the island and began to settle there in 1492. The Spaniards treated the natives very cruelly, and when the natives revolted, the Spanish governor of Haiti ordered the arrests of several native nobles, including Anacaona, who was eventually captured and executed, to the horror of her people.

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A novel in diary form in which the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II describes the privileged life her family led up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them.

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The year is 1861 and a major horse race is about to be run for the first time: the Melbourne Cup. Thirteen year old Robby Jenkins is working as a stablehand, and is convinced that his favourite horse, Archer, can win. This is the story of how one of Australia's iconic events began.
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Battle of Britain: A Second World War Spitfire Pilot 1939-1941 (My Story Series) order quantity
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Author: Chris Priestley
It's 1939 and Harry Woods is a Spitfire pilot in the RAF. When his friend Lenny loses his leg in a dogfight with the Luftwaffe, Harry is determined to fight on. That is, until his plane is hit and he finds himself tumbling through the air high above the English Channel.

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Blitz: A Wartime Girl's Diary, 1940-1941 (My Story) order quantity
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Author: Vince Cross
It's 1940 and with London under fire, Edie and her little brother are evacuated to Wales. Miles from home and missing her family, Edie is determined to be strong, but when life in the countryside proves tougher than in the capital she is torn between obeying her parents and protecting her brother.

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Bloody Tower: A Tudor Girl's Diary, 1553-1559 (My Story) order quantity
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Author: Valerie Wilding
Tilly lives in turbulent times. It's the 1550s; when Queen Mary ousts Lady Jane Grey to win the throne, her executioners are kept busy. Even Princess Elizabeth is imprisoned in the Tower.
As Tilly watches the plots and politics of the Tudor court unfolding, she waits for her chance to deliver a very important letter...

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Author: Anthony Hill
The true story of Captain Cook's first, three-year-long voyage to Australia on board the Endeavour, seen through the eyes of a cabin boy, Isaac Manley. Isaac becomes friends with a native girl in Tahiti and gets a tattoo there. He witnesses the violent skirmishes Cook's men have with the Maori in New Zealand and survives the ordeal of the ship striking a coral reef at the Great Barrier Reef.

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Fourteen-year-old Prussian princess Sophia finds herself entangled in her mother's efforts to arrange a marriage between Sophia and Charles-Peter, a young German duke and nephew of the Russian empress Elizabeth. As Sophia's mother moves to make the match, she and Sophia must travel from their humble home in Zerbst, Prussia, to Russia--the kingdom of Elizabeth. There, Sophia is renamed Catherine and married to Charles-Peter, but she watches helplessly as her family is torn from her, her own mother is involved in a spying ring against the empress, and all that is familiar to her disappears.

 
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