History KS3

Be a KS3 History scholar by reading:

 

Norman England and Medieval Lives –  

• Anglo-Saxon Boy by Tony Bradman 
• Knight’s Fee by Rosemary Sutcliff – 
• Arthur: The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland 
• The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman 
• The Woolpack by Cynthia Harnett 
• Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman 
• Robin of Sherwood by Michael Morpurgo 
• Castle Diary by Richard Platt 

 

Tudors and Stuarts –  

• My Friend Walter by Michael Morpurgo 
• I Coriander by Sally Gardner 
• The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain 
• The My Story series of fictional diaries 
• A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley 
• The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain 
• A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge 
• Witch Child by Celia Rees 

 

Industrial Revolution and Empire 

• The Apprentices by Leon Garfield 
• Out of the Smoke by Matthew Wainwright 
• Street Child by Berlie Doherty 
• The Railway Children by E Nesbit 

 

African Kingdoms and Enslavement of Peoples 

• Cane Warriors by Alex Wheatle 
• The First of Midnight by Marjorie Darke 
• Freedom by Catherine Johnson 
• English Passengers by Matthew Kneale 
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi 

 

World War One, World Two and Suffragettes 

• A Question of Courage by Marjorie Darke 
• A Long Way to Go by Marjorie Darke 
• Conkers and Grenades by Hilary Lee-Corbin 
• The Skylarks' War by Hilary McKay 
• Medal for Leroy by Michal Morpurgo 
• Make More Noise! by Emma Carroll and Kiran Hargrave 
• The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall  

The Holocaust 

• When the World was Ours by Liz Kessler 
• Maus by Art Spiegelman 
• A Berline Love Song by Sarah Matthias 
• The Earth is Singing by Vanessa Curtis 
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 
• The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 

 

The Cold War 

• Fallout by Todd Straser 
• The Sixties Trilogy by Deborah Wiles 
• The Boy on the Bridge by Natalie Sandiford 
• Suspect Red by LM Elliott 
• The Wall by Peter Sís 
• Sekret by Lindasy Smith 

 

History KS4

Be a KS4 History scholar by reading:

 

American West 

• Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder  
• Crow Mountain by Lucy Inglis  
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London 
• Stop the Train by Geraldine McCaughrean  
• Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia McClachlan  
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown  

 

Early Elizabethan England 

• A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley 
• Shardlake by CJ Sansom 
• Heresy by SJ Parris 
• A Column of Fire by Ken Follett 
• The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels by Philippa Gregory 
• The Girl in the Glass Tower by Elizabeth Fremantle 

 

Medicine Through Time 

• Sawbones by Catherine Johnson  
• Fleshmarket by Nicola Morgan  
• The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman  
• The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris  
• No Place for Ladies by Helen Rappaport  
• The Rose of Sebastopol by Katherine McMahon  

Weimar and Nazi Germany 

• Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin 

• The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun 
• If the Dead Rise Not by Philip Kerr 
• Ashes by Kathryn Lasky 
• The Extra by Kathryn Lasky 
• HHhH by Lauren Binet 
• The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin by Kip Wilson 
• The Edelweiss Pirates by Dirk Reinhardt 
• Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally 
• All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 

 

Be a KS5 History scholar by reading:

 

The Tudors: 

• A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley 
• Shardlake by CJ Sansom 
• Heresy by SJ Parris 
• A Column of Fire by Ken Follett 
• The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels by Philippa Gregory 
• The Girl in the Glass Tower by Elizabeth Fremantle 

Weimar and Nazi Germany 

• Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin 
• The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun 
• If the Dead Rise Not by Philip Kerr 
• Ashes by Kathryn Lasky 
• The Extra by Kathryn Lasky 
• HHhH by Lauren Binet 
• The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin by Kip Wilson 
• The Edelweiss Pirates by Dirk Reinhardt 
• Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada   
• The Nazis: A Warning from History by Laurence Rees  
• Two Brothers by Ben Elton