Armistice Day

For the Ones You Love

Twin sisters' survival through Nazi ghettos and concentration camps.

Authors and illustrators

Jeremy Dronfield

Endling: Book Three: The Only

Animal fantasy about armies and a young leader fighting for peace

Authors and illustrators

Katherine Applegate

Uki and the Outcasts

Children's fantasy quest to stop the Spirit of War and protect peace.

Authors and illustrators

Kieran Larwood David Wyatt

Stubby: A True Story of Friendship

True WWI tale of Sergeant Stubby, a dog who served bravely in the trenches.

Authors and illustrators

Michael Foreman

Stay Where You Are And Then Leave

Boy in WWI London tries to find his father in a mysterious military hospital.

Authors and illustrators

John Boyne Lesley Barnes

Things a Bright Girl Can Do

Suffragettes' struggles and sacrifices as WWI changes Britain.

Authors and illustrators

Sally Nicholls

Postcards from No Man's Land

Young man at Arnhem commemoration uncovers WWII love and betrayal.

Authors and illustrators

Aidan Chambers

Ghost Soldier

WWI-era children's novel about loss, hope, and a ghostly encounter.

Authors and illustrators

Theresa Breslin

Only Remembered

Anthology of WWI poems, letters and images for remembrance.

Authors and illustrators

Michael Morpurgo Ian Beck

War Girls

WWI women's stories of sacrifice, loss and remembrance.

Authors and illustrators

Adele Geras Berlie Doherty Melvin Burgess

How Can a Pigeon Be a War Hero? Questions and Answers about the First World War

Accessible Q&A overview of World War I, ideal background reading for Armistice Day.

Authors and illustrators

Tracey Turner

Biggles Learns to Fly

WWI-era rookie pilot learns to fight in early aerial combat.

Authors and illustrators

W. E. Johns

Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders - World War I

Lively, kid-friendly, fact-packed overview of World War I.

Authors and illustrators

Sir Tony Robinson

Billie Templar's War

Girl's comic, poignant quest to bring her soldier father home during wartime.

Authors and illustrators

Ellie Irving

Red Badge of Courage

A young recruit's struggle with fear and courage amid Civil War combat

Authors and illustrators

Stephen Crane

Kiss the Dust

A Kurdish teen and her family flee war, facing refugee hardship and loss.

Authors and illustrators

Elizabeth Laird

Just Binnie

Homefront coming-of-age during WWI, coping with loss after loved ones don’t return.

Authors and illustrators

Dick King-Smith

Lines in the Sand

Anthology of anti‑war poems and stories for children promoting peace.

Authors and illustrators

Jane Ray

Remembrance

WWI novel following Scottish teens through trenches and homefront loss

Authors and illustrators

Theresa Breslin

The Lion And The Unicorn

WWII evacuee story of a boy, courage, loss and hope.

Authors and illustrators

Shirley Hughes

Endling: Book Three: The Only

Middle‑grade animal fantasy: a young leader builds an army of peace.

Authors and illustrators

Katherine Applegate

The Extraordinary Life of Mary Seacole

Crimean War nurse who cared for soldiers and challenged racial prejudice

Authors and illustrators

Naida Redgrave Alleanna Harris

An Anty-War Story

Ant soldier Douglas discovers the grim reality of war in this WWI anti‑war tale.

Authors and illustrators

Tony Ross

Remembrance

YA novel of friends confronting World War I, loss, and remembrance

Authors and illustrators

Theresa Breslin Lesley Barnes

Come On In, America

Examines America's role in World War I

Authors and illustrators

Linda Barrett Osborne

Only Remembered

Anthology of WWI poems, letters and images for remembrance.

Authors and illustrators

Michael Morpurgo Ian Beck

The Things We Did for Love

WWII French village resistance: love, sacrifice and betrayal under occupation.

Authors and illustrators

Natasha Farrant

The Runaways

WWI-era animal adventure about separation, loss and homecoming.

Authors and illustrators

Megan Rix

Opal Plumstead

Young girl's life and community transformed by WWI on the British home front.

Authors and illustrators

Jacqueline Wilson Nick Sharratt

Loyal Creatures

Australian boy and his war horse in the WWI Middle Eastern campaign.

Authors and illustrators

Morris Gleitzman

Noble Conflict

Post-war society grapples with protecting peace against rebel threats.

Authors and illustrators

Malorie Blackman

The Bomber Dog

WWII paratrooper puppy's brave journey to find his injured handler.

Authors and illustrators

Megan Rix

An Angel For May

Time-travel to WWII explores bombing, rescue and civilian trauma.

Authors and illustrators

Melvin Burgess

Now

WWII-era children's story about memory, loss and courage amid war.

Authors and illustrators

Morris Gleitzman

City of Ghosts

1919 Amritsar: a WWI veteran returns into unrest and revolution

Authors and illustrators

Bali Rai

Postcards from No Man's Land

WWII remembrance, love, betrayal, and commemoration at Arnhem

Authors and illustrators

Aidan Chambers

A Brush With The Past

Illustrated Edwardian scenes, including WWI trench vignettes and wartime scrapbooks.

Authors and illustrators

Shirley Hughes

Sailing Boat In The Sky

Children sail a magical boat aiding war victims and rebuilding hope.

Authors and illustrators

Quintin Blake

Biggles of the Fighter Squadron

Late-WWI fighter-pilot adventure focused on aerial combat.

Authors and illustrators

W. E. Johns

Silent Night, My Astronaut

A child's illustrated diary of war, fear, hope and yearning for peace.

Authors and illustrators

Oksana Lushchevska Kateryna Stepanishcheva

White Bird

Graphic novel about a Jewish girl's hiding in WWII France; courage and remembrance.

Authors and illustrators

R. J. Palacio

Stubby: A True Story of Friendship

WWI dog hero’s true story: Stubby serves in trenches, detects gas, aids soldiers.

Authors and illustrators

Michael Foreman

The Machine Gunners

Children find a German machine gun in WWII Britain, confronting war's costs.

Authors and illustrators

Robert Westall

Salt to the Sea

WWII refugees' journey culminating in the Wilhelm Gustloff sinking.

Authors and illustrators

Ruta Sepetys

Jet the Rescue Dog

Children's stories of wartime animals' courage and rescue.

Authors and illustrators

David Long Peter Bailey

No!

Almost-wordless picture book about witnessing conflict and choosing peace.

Authors and illustrators

David McPhail

Looking at the Stars

Women and family displaced by war; refugee survival and memory.

Authors and illustrators

Jo Cotterill Joanna Cotterill

Dawn of Fear

Children's wartime survival amid air raids and community violence

Authors and illustrators

Susan Cooper

Sir Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders: World War I and World War II

Child-friendly, fact-packed introduction to WWI and WWII.

Authors and illustrators

Sir Tony Robinson

Biggles in France

WWI fighter-ace adventures and squadron camaraderie.

Authors and illustrators

W. E. Johns

How Can a Pigeon Be a War Hero? And Other Very Important Questions and Answers About the First World War

Child-friendly Q&A about World War I, including its causes and end.

Authors and illustrators

Tracey Turner

A Soldier's Friend

Two animal friends in WWI trenches helping soldiers and teaching remembrance.

Authors and illustrators

Megan Rix

The New Recruit

Contemporary soldier’s guilt and combat in Afghanistan.

Authors and illustrators

Andy McNab

Never Fall Down

Child survivor of the Cambodian Killing Fields who survives, remembers, and seeks peace.

Authors and illustrators

Patricia McCormick

Soldier Dog

WWI boy enlists as dog handler; explores war, loyalty, and healing.

Authors and illustrators

Sam Angus

TimeRiders: The Eternal War (Book 4)

YA time-travelers broker a ceasefire in no man’s land to stop an endless war.

Authors and illustrators

Alex Scarrow

One Boy's War

Teen's letters from the WWI trenches revealing disillusionment and loss.

Authors and illustrators

Lynn Huggins-Cooper Ian Benfold Haywood

My Secret Camera

Photographic testimony from the Łódź Ghetto documenting wartime suffering.

Authors and illustrators

Frank Dabba Smith

The Silver Sword

Children's survival in WWII Poland — a moving reminder of war's human cost

Authors and illustrators

Ian Serraillier

Heroes

A maimed WWII veteran confronts trauma, shame and a quest for revenge.

Authors and illustrators

Robert Cormier

Back Home

WWII evacuee's return and the emotional aftermath of war.

Authors and illustrators

Michelle Magorian

The Uninvited

YA fantasy about faerie refugees and a quest to end their war.

Authors and illustrators

Ross MacKenzie

The Swallows' Flight

WWII-era tale of friendship, loss and hope across enemy lines.

Authors and illustrators

Hilary McKay

Our Beautiful Game

WWI-era women's football, home-front resilience and wartime social change

Authors and illustrators

Lou Kuenzler

Voyage of the Sparrowhawk

Post‑WWI children's adventure about searching for missing soldiers and home.

Authors and illustrators

Natasha Farrant

Poems to Live Your Life By

Illustrated anthology of poems on life, death and war — reflective reading.

Authors and illustrators

Chris Riddell

Tusk Tusk

Allegory of war and peace: elephants' conflict and the cost of battle.

Authors and illustrators

David McKee

The Boy at the Top of the Mountain

A child drawn into Hitler's inner circle; a personal view of war's moral consequences.

Authors and illustrators

John Boyne

Five Children on the Western Front

Children confront the Great War from trenches to home through a bittersweet fantasy.

Authors and illustrators

Kate Saunders

The Whale That Fell in Love with a Submarine

Allegorical children's tales of wartime loss, trauma and remembrance.

Authors and illustrators

Akiyuki Nosaka

Captain

WWI Gallipoli tale of a 15-year-old soldier, friendship and courage

Authors and illustrators

Sam Angus

Back Home

Post-war childhood and homecoming after WWII evacuation.

Authors and illustrators

Michelle Magorian

Poems from the First World War

Anthology of WWI poems reflecting sacrifice, grief and remembrance.

Authors and illustrators

Gaby Morgan

A Soldier's Friend

Child-friendly WWI trench tale of a dog and cat aiding soldiers.

Authors and illustrators

Megan Rix

Bone Jack

YA novel about a veteran's PTSD and a boy confronting war's aftermath

Authors and illustrators

Sara Crowe

Postcards from No Man's Land

YA novel about remembrance and a WWII commemoration at Arnhem.

Authors and illustrators

Aidan Chambers

Goodnight Mister Tom

WWII evacuee tale of trauma, friendship and wartime healing.

Authors and illustrators

Michelle Magorian

City of Ghosts

Post‑WWI Amritsar: a veteran, rebellion and the personal fallout of war

Authors and illustrators

Bali Rai

Map of Dreams

Refugee boy finds hope and escape through a magical map during war.

Authors and illustrators

Uri Shulevitz

Petar's Song

Refugee boy's music heals wartime loss and expresses hope for peace.

Authors and illustrators

Pratima Mitchell Caroline Binch

World War I: On Land

Accessible battlefield stories and trench accounts from WWI

Authors and illustrators

Peter Hepplewhite

La Premiere Lettre Du Petit Prince Paul

Allegory of gossip and fear spiraling into war.

Authors and illustrators

Ann Love Toni Goffe

The Book Cat

WWII-era tale of a bookshop cat evacuating kittens during the Blitz.

Authors and illustrators

Polly Faber Clara Vulliamy

Black and British: An Illustrated History

Illustrated history highlighting Black British soldiers in World War I.

Authors and illustrators

David Olusoga Jake Alexander Melleny Taylor

War Stories

Children’s anthology of wartime stories reflecting loss, aftermath and peace.

Authors and illustrators

Michael Morpurgo

An Anty-War Story

A child-friendly anti-war allegory reflecting on WWI and loss.

Authors and illustrators

Tony Ross

The Skylarks' War

A WWI family story of summers, loss, and the cost of war.

Authors and illustrators

Hilary McKay

The Secret of the Blue Glass

Children's fantasy about courage, separation and wartime loss in WWII Japan.

Authors and illustrators

Tomiko Inui

Opal Plumstead

YA wartime story of a young suffragette whose life is changed by WWI.

Authors and illustrators

Jacqueline Wilson Nick Sharratt

Biggles and the Rescue Flight

WWI air-combat adventure about rescuing a presumed MIA brother.

Authors and illustrators

W. E. Johns

Ghost Soldier

WWI children's novel about family loss and an eerie ghost sighting

Authors and illustrators

Theresa Breslin

Stay Where You Are And Then Leave

Boy seeks his father in a WWI hospital treating traumatized soldiers.

Authors and illustrators

John Boyne

Dawn

WWI wartime romance exploring love, loss and anti-German prejudice.

Authors and illustrators

Eve Edwards

War Girls

Short stories of women’s roles, losses and courage during World War I

Authors and illustrators

Adele Geras Berlie Doherty Melvin Burgess

50 Things You Should Know About The First World War

Concise primer on WWI causes, course and the 11 Nov 1918 armistice.

Authors and illustrators

Jim Eldridge

True Stories from World War I

True, illustrated WWI stories of trenches, air war and Gallipoli.

Authors and illustrators

Peter Hepplewhite

Bone Jack

YA tale of a veteran's return, PTSD, and communal mourning.

Authors and illustrators

Sara Crowe

Biggles: The Camels Are Coming

WWI air-combat adventure centered on Sopwith Camels and a flying ace.

Authors and illustrators

W. E. Johns

Looking at the Stars

A family's flight from war and survival in a refugee camp.

Authors and illustrators

Jo Cotterill Joanna Cotterill

The Swallow And The Dark

Dual timeline linking a WWI lieutenant's front-line experience with a modern teen.

Authors and illustrators

Andrew Matthews

World War I

Lively, kid-friendly overview of World War I: trenches, weapons, innovations.

Authors and illustrators

Sir Tony Robinson

Stay Where You Are And Then Leave

WWI children's novel: boy searches for his father in a military hospital.

Authors and illustrators

John Boyne

Dusk

WWI nurse-artist romance set in London and the Somme trenches.

Authors and illustrators

Eve Edwards

Never Fall Down

Memoir-based novel of a Cambodian child survivor turned peace activist.

Authors and illustrators

Patricia McCormick

A Skull in Shadows Lane

Children find an escaped POW and wartime secrets in their village.

Authors and illustrators

Robert Swindells

Remembrance

Scottish teens in WWI—trenches, nurses, and a village transformed by the Great War.

Authors and illustrators

Theresa Breslin

The Search

Graphic novel on WWII and the Holocaust exploring wartime moral ambiguity.

Authors and illustrators

Ruud Van der Rol Lies Schippers Eric Heuvel

Other Echoes

Childhood memories shaped by WWII’s tragedies in Borneo.

Authors and illustrators

Adele Geras

The Snow Goose

Elegiac wartime tale of sacrifice and remembrance at Dunkirk.

Authors and illustrators

Paul Gallico Angela Barrett

Oranges in No Man's Land

A ten-year-old crosses Beirut's no-man's-land to seek urgent medical help.

Authors and illustrators

Elizabeth Laird

War

Children's anthology exploring the human cost of various wars.

Authors and illustrators

Michael Morpurgo

World War I: In the Air

True stories of WWI aerial combat, bombing raids and zeppelins.

Authors and illustrators

Peter Hepplewhite

AK

Child soldier forced between violence and the hope of peace.

Authors and illustrators

Peter Dickinson

Zlata's Diary

Child's diary of life under siege in Sarajevo, showing war's toll.

Authors and illustrators

Zlata Filipovic

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