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The 'My Story' series is
divided in to 2 sections - books for girls and books
for boys.
Click here to see the
titles in the boys' My Story series
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|  Factory
Girl
by Pamela Oldfield
Everybody knows the sad tale of the Little Match Girl,
but less well known is the story of the girls and women
who slaved fourteen hours a day in the match factories
for appalling pay, only to contract such fatal complaints
as phossy jaw. The brutality of these conditions was
brought to a head with the London Match-Girls Strike
of 1888. Told from the perspective of a young factory
worker, this major new My Story offers a fascinating
insight into Victorian child labour.
ISBN: 978 1407 11672 3. Paperback.
£6.99 |
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 Suffragette
by Carol Drinkwater
It's 1909. Dollie is swept up in the thrill of the
campaign for Votes for Women. Against her guardian's
wishes, she marches against Parliament with Emmeline
Pankhurst and her fellow suffragettes. But as the movement
turns violent, women are imprisoned and endanger their
lives with hunger strikes. Dollie must decide how far
she will go for 'Deeds, not words'...
ISBN: 978 1407 12072 0. Paperback.
£6.99 |
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 Australia
by Goldie Alexander
Elizabeth Harvey, thrown into London's Newgate Prison
in 1790 for a crime she didn't commit, finds herself
transported to Australia. As maidservant to a surgeon
in Sydney Cove, she is faced with the harsh reality
of eking out life from the stark new continent, and
the real convicts who were sent there too...
ISBN: 978 1407 12068 3. Paperback.
£6.99 |
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The Fall of the Blade
by Sue Reid
'Liberty, equality, fraternity' cry the revolutionaries
as they spill the blood of the aristocracy into the
streets of Paris. The rumble of the tumbrils strikes
fear into the hearts of the once rich and powerful.
For one young noblewoman, a simple act of charity from
years before could be the only thing that can save her.
This gripping new addition to the My Story series is
a fascinating glimpse into the Reign of Terror.
ISBN: 978 1407 11118 6. Paperback.
£6.99 |
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|  1900:
A Brand-New Century
by Carol Drinkwater
Flora Bonnington lives in a world where it is unattractive
for a lady to express her opinions, and all excitement
should be confined to the ballroom. But Flora wants
to be a Twentieth-Century woman. She wants the vote,
she wants to educate her servants and she wants to learn
everything there is to know about the art of cinematography.
But can she truly go against the father she loves in
order to fulfil her dreams?
ISBN: 978 1407 11478 1. Paperback.
£6.99 |
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 Young
Nanny
by Frances Mary Hendry
In 1850 London the construction of the Crystal Palace
is sending great excitement through fashionable society.
Lily Hicks, a young nanny newly arrived in the big city,
has to learn how to deal with the politics of the servants
quarters, while taking on unexpected responsibilities
from the family upstairs.
ISBN: 978 1407 11204 6 |
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|  Slave
Girl
by Patricia C McKissack
Clotee is a slave-girl in one of Virginia's notorious
cotton plantations. To her, freedom is just a word –
but it's the most important word in the world. Based
on the true memoirs of Clotee Henley, a former slave,
this book shows what life was like for black Americans
on the slave plantations.
ISBN: 978 1407 11516 0. Paperback.
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War Stories for Girls
It isn't just men that war makes heroes. These three
exciting stories feature the Second World War from the
perspective of three young women: Sophie, a messenger
for a Resistance group in France; Kitty, a VAD nurse,
and Edie, a young evacuee, forced to leave her London
home and move to Wales.
ISBN: 978 1407 11482 8. Paperback.
£7.99 |
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 Sophie's
Secret War
by Jill Atkins
In 1939, the start of the Second World War, Sophie
becomes a messenger for a Resistance group in Northern
France. But as the German invaders overwhelm the British
forces on the French coast, Sophie finds herself more
deeply involved with the Resistance - in a dangerous
plan to save a young Scottish soldier before the Germans
close in…
ISBN: 978 1407 10865 0. Paperback.
£5.99
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 War
Nurse
by Sue Reid
When war breaks out in 1939 Kitty signs up to be a
Red Cross nurse in a military hospital. It's not long
before she's needed to treat badly wounded casualties
from the war now raging across Europe. Then the hospital
takes a direct hit and Kitty finds herself a reluctant
heroine.
ISBN: 978 1407 10867 4. Paperback.
£5.99
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Highway Girl
by Valerie Wilding
It's 1670. When Susannah and her brother are orphaned
she is forced to live on the charity of distant relations
in England while he seeks his fortune in America. But
when news arrives that her brother is dangerously ill
Susannah will stop at nothing to get the money she desperately
needs to save his life...
ISBN: 978 1407 10870 4. Paperback.
£5.99
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 Workhouse
by Pamela Oldfield
It’s January 1871 when Edith, the sheltered
daughter of a wealthy widow, pays her first eventful
visit to the workhouse for the poor. There she meets
Rosie, a rebellious, quick-tempered orphan who is always
getting into trouble. Edith soon finds herself drawn
into Rosie’s wild schemes and both their lives
are never the same again…
ISBN: 978 1407 10480 5. Paperback.
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 Blitz
by 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…
ISBN: 978 1407 10371 6. Paperback.
£5.99 |
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Mill Girl
by Sue Reid
In spring 1842 Eliza is shocked when she is sent to
work in the Manchester cotton mills - the noisy, suffocating
mills. The work is backbreaking and dangerous - and
when she sees her friends' lives wrecked by poverty,
sickness and unrest, Eliza realizes she must fight to
escape the fate of a mill girl...
ISBN: 978 1407 10373 0. Paperback.
£5.99 |
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 Pompeii
by Sue Reid
It's August AD 78 and Claudia is at the Forum in Pompeii.
It's a day of strange encounters and even odder portents.
When the ground shakes Claudia is convinced it is a
bad omen. What does it all mean? And why is she so disturbed
by Vesuvius, the great volcano that looms over the city...
ISBN: 978 1407 10308 2. Paperback.
£5.99 |
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Road to War
by Valerie Wilding
It's 1917 and the Great War rages in Europe. When Daffy
Rowntree's brother goes missing in action she refuses
to sit safely in England, and determines to do something
to help win the war. Soon she finds herself in the mud
and horror of the battlefields of France, driving an
ambulance transporting the wounded of the trenches...
ISBN: 978 1407 10461 4. Paperback.
£5.99 |
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The Great Plague
by Pamela Oldfield
It's 1665 and Alice is looking forward to being back
in London. But the plague is spreading quickly, and
as each day passes more red crosses appear on doors.
When her aunt is struck down with the plague, she is
forced to make a decision that could change her life
forever...
ISBN: 978 1407 10478 2. Paperback.
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 The
Hunger
by Carol Drinkwater
It's 1845 and blight has destroyed the precious potato
crop leaving Ireland starving. Phyllis works hard to
support her struggling family, but when her mother's
health deteriorates she sets off in search of her rebel
brother and is soon swept up in the fight for a free
and fair Ireland...
ISBN: 978 1407 10479 9. Paperback.
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 Titanic
by Ellen Emerson White
Margaret Anne dreams of leaving the orphanage behind,
and she can hardly believe her luck when she is chosen
to accompany wealthy Mrs Carstairs aboard the great
Titanic. But when the passengers are woken on a freezing
night in April 1912, she finds herself caught up in
an unimaginable nightmare...
ISBN: 978 1407 10378 5. Paperback.
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War
Nurse
by Sue Reid
This is the diary of Kitty, an 18-year-old VAD (Voluntary
Aid Detachment), during the years of 1940 and 1941.
As a nurse working in the military hospitals in the
south of England, Kitty sees at close hand the effects
of war - notably the casualties of Dunkirk.
ISBN: 978 0439 95902 5. Paperback.
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 Mayflower
by Kathryn Lasky The diary of 12
year old Remember Patience Whipple, 1620.
"We are journeying to the New World . It is the
Mayflower that be getting us there, slowly. The reason
for our journey is our religion. We are Saints of the
Holy Discipline."
ISBN: 978 0439 98115 6. Paperback.
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 The
Crystal Palace
by Francis Mary Hendry
The diary of Lily Hicks, London 1850-1851
The Crystal Palace is more wonderful every time we go,
with coloured light everywhere, so airy and delicate,
but strong. Master has made a miracle, everybody says
so. And as for the exhibits inside, there are more and
more every day."
ISBN: 0 439 9973 9. Paperback. £5.99
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| My Royal Story |
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 Catherine
of Aragon
by Alison Prince
It is 1501 and Eva is making the greatest trip of her
life - from Spain to London as lady-in-waiting to the
future Queen of England. "I'm sure Mama would be
impressed by the great procession in which we have slowly
made our way from the West Country to London. Horses
and carriages, soldiers, courtiers, ladies, jesters
- and Catherine herself, Catherine of Aragon on her
way to wed Prince Arthur, eldest son of the King of
England." But Prince Arthur does not have long
to live. What will happen to Catherine, his new wife,
then? A thrilling story-diary set among the pomp, plots
and political wrangling of the Tudor court.
ISBN: 978 1407 12071 3. Paperback.
£6.99 |
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 Elizabeth
by Kathryn Lasky
Daughter of a fallen queen, young Princess Elizabeth
lives a complicated and dangerous life. She fears her
father's famous temper but loves him dearly –
she would trade all her jewels just to be noticed by
him! As the royal family moves palaces, court intrigue
swirls around the young princess, under the threat of
a French invasion...
ISBN: 978 1407 11621 1. Paperback.
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|  Mary
Queen of Scots
by Kathryn Lasky
At just 11 years old, the young princess Mary is sent
from her native Scotland to live in the court of her
future father-in-law, King Henry II of France. She spends
her time attending balls, hunting, learning Latin and
fractions and music, and playing with her future husband,
Francis. But all the while Mary is quite aware of her
role as the betrothed to France's royal family.
ISBN: 978 1407 11622 8. Paperback.
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Cleopatra
by Kristiana Gregory
Before Julius Caesar ... before Marc Antony ... she
was Cleopatra, Princess of the Nile, growing up in a
climate of danger where sisters can also be assassins,
and her pet leopard stalks the garden at night to fend
off intruders. Princess Cleopatra just cannot keep away
from the marble tomb of Alexander the Great ... she
hopes that one day people will call her 'Great'.
ISBN: 978 1407 11617 4. Paperback.
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 Marie
Antoinette
by Kathryn Lasky
Young Marie Antoinette has a recurring nightmare, in
which the broken head of her porcelain doll is her own.
Marie Antoinette doesn't know her fate, but she knows
her destiny to one day be the Queen of France. But all
the preparation in the world cannot equip her for the
adventure she is about to embark upon.
ISBN: 978 1407 11618 1. Paperback.
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 Anne
Boleyn and Me
by Alison Prince
England 1525. Allegiances are divided. Henry VIII
wants to divorce his devoted wife Catherine of Aragon
and marry Anne Boleyn. For young Elinor Valjean, the
conflict is a personal one: she loves Queen Catherine,
but is forced to wait upon her supplanter. Elinor's
diary chronicles the turbulent years of Henry's divorce
and her role as bystander to the stormiest marriage
in history.
ISBN: 978 1407 11477 4. Paperback.
£6.99
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Anastasia
by Carolyn Meyer
In 1914 Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter
of the Tsar, leads a privileged life in the grand palaces
of Russia. The First World War and the Bolshevik revolution
are just about to erupt. With the royal family arrested
and exiled to Siberia, the life Anastasia knows is swept
away forever. Spanning the last four years of Anastasia's
life, My Royal Story offers a fascinating insight into
a childhood spent in one of Russian history's darkest
hours.
ISBN: 978 1407 11619 8. Paperback.
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 Victoria
by Anna Kirwan
The young Queen Victoria was brought up hidden from
the world she would one day govern. In 1829, aged ten,
Princess Victoria is a lonely little girl, but she is
about to make a startling discovery. She is closer to
the throne than she ever imagined. Spanning a year in
Victoria's life, My Royal Story offers a fascinating
insight into the childhood of a young princess.
ISBN: 978 1407 11620 4. Paperback.
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Tudor Stories for Girls
by Alison Prince
My Tudor Queen is the diary of Eva De Puebla who comes
to England as lady-in-waiting to Catherine of Aragon.
Anne Boleyn and Me is the story of Elinor Valjean, Eva's
daughter, who serves in Henry VIII's court.
ISBN: 978 1407 11096 7. Paperback.
£7.99
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 Princess
of Egypt
by Vince Cross
In 1490 BC Asha, daughter of King Tuthmosis lives a
carefree life at the royal court in Thebes. But when
a prophecy foretells that 'a young woman will prove
to be the best man in the Two Kingdoms', she's caught
up in a world of plots and danger...
ISBN: 978 1407 10309 9. Paperback.
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 The
Bloody Tower
by 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...
ISBN: 978 1407 10477 5. Paperback.
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 To
Kill a Queen
by Valerie Wilding
It's the 1580s. Queen Elizabeth's enemies plot to
kill her and place Mary Queen of Scots on the throne.
While Kitty's father works on secret projects for
Elizabeth, her brother's mixing with suspicious
characters. As Mary's supporters edge closer by
the minute, Kitty fears the worst… that they'll
all be thrown into the Tower.
ISBN: 978 1407 10812 4. Paperback.
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| My True Story |
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 Standing
Alone
by Jim Eldridge
He was only fifteen when he enlisted in the navy without
his father's permission. He was only sixteen when he
died at Grimsby General Hospital with splinters of steel
in his chest. The Battle of Jutland was the biggest
sea battle since the Armada. Jack Cornwell was awarded
a posthumous Victorian Cross for staying, seriously
wounded, at his post on the HMS Chester. This is the
tragic true story of one of the youngest heroes of World
War I, and a moving insight into the devastating effects
of war on ordinary families.
ISBN: 978 1407 11782 9. Paperback.
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Hero at Dunkirk
by Vince Cross
Joe Read was 15 years old when he was caught up in
a moment in history no one will ever forget. 2010 sees
the 70th anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuation. Winston
Churchill called it 'a miracle of deliverance' when
over 300000 British and allied soldiers were rescued
from the beaches of Dunkirk by a fleet of over 800 boats.
Joe and his father Wally risked their lives taking their
pleasure craft, the New Britannic, across the channel.
Joe's story is told here for the first time.
ISBN: 978 1407 11783 6. Paperback.
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 What
if they find us?
by Kathy Clarke
Kathy Clarke tells the true story of two young Jewish
girls: Susan and Vera, who in German-occupied Hungary
suddenly find themselves sent to a convent to be kept
"safe" from the Nazis. Here they discover
the meaning of humanity as the nuns valiantly risk their
lives every day to save 120 Jewish children.
ISBN: 978 1407 11592 4.
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