Twentieth Century Girl: The Diary of Flora Bonnington, London, 1899-1900
6 best books like Twentieth Century Girl: The Diary of Flora Bonnington, London, 1899-1900 (Carol Drinkwater): Geek Girl, Liar & Spy, Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria - France, 1769, Victorian Workhouse: The Diary of Edith Lorrimer, England, 1871, The Prison Doctor, Podkin One-Ear
| Author | Holly Smale |
| ISBN | 0007489447 |
Harriet Manners knows a lot of things.
She knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear, a "jiffy" lasts 1/100th of a second, and the average person laughs 15 times per day. What she isn't quite so sure about is why nobody at school seems to like her very much. So when she's spotted by a top model agent,...
| Author | Rebecca Stead |
| ISBN | 0385737432 |
When seventh grader Georges (the S is silent) moves into a Brooklyn apartment building, he meets Safer, a twelve-year-old coffee-drinking loner and self-appointed spy. Georges becomes Safer's first spy recruit. His assignment? Tracking the mysterious Mr. X, who lives in the apartment upstairs....
| Author | Kathryn Lasky |
| ISBN | 0439076668 |
"I look up now into the oval mirror and see barely a trace of the mud-splattered girl tearing through the woodland on her horse, or the barefoot girl wading at Schonbrunn... I have become what Mama set out for me to be. Majestic. A Dauphine and eventually a Queen." So writes the headstrong 13-year-old Maria...
| Author | Pamela Oldfield |
| ISBN | 0439977304 |
I didn't enjoy this one so much. I did so want to learn more about Workhouses back in the day, I don't know too much except what I've read and seen from the likes of Oliver Twist and Annie. I thought I would get a much more realistic version of events, despite the fact that the "My Story" series are based on fictional...
Dr Amanda Brown has treated inmates in the UK’s most infamous prisons – first in young offenders’ institutions, then at the notorious Wormwood Scrubs and finally at Europe’s largest women-only prison in Europe, Bronzefield. From miraculous pregnancies to dirty protests, and from violent...
| Author | Kieran Larwood |
| ISBN | 0571328407 |
A thick white blanket covers the wide slopes of the band of hills some call the Razorback Downs...
Podkin One-Ear is a legend: a fearsome warrior rabbit whose reputation for cunning and triumph in battle has travelled the ages. But how did he become such a mighty fighter? The answer may surprise...
