Year 9 The Dark Lady - Akala. This is the story of Henry; an orphan, an outsider, a thief who needs to solve a mystery in the brutal world of Tudor London. S BC A Medal for Leroy - Michael Morpurgo. A novel partly based on the life of Walter Tull, an English professional footballer and the first black combat officer in the British army. S BC Year 10 I Must Betray You - Ruta Sepetys. A tense thriller about a young boy growing up under a repressive Communist dictatorship. S BC HHhH by Laurent Binet. A gripping story based on Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in Prague during World War II. S BC Year 11 Burma Boy - Biyi Bandele. A vivid account of a young Nigerian in the British army, fighting behind the lines in the Burmese jungle during World War Two. S BC One Night in Winter - Simon Sebag Montefiore. A murder mystery set in Stalin’s Moscow during the bleak days after World War II. S BC Year 12 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn. An account of a 24-hour period in a Russian Gulag. S BC Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida - Robert Chandler. A chance to enjoy many unusual short stories from Tsarist and Communist times. BC Year 13 The Story of China: A portrait of a Civilisation and its people - Michael Wood. Wonderfully written insight into the long view of China’s history. S The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz. A tense novel of attempted escape. It provides an insight into why fleeing the Nazi regime was near impossible for many of Germany’s Jews. The author is as interesting as the story. S BC Year 7 The Silver Sword - Ian Serraillier. Join a group of young Polish children on an epic journey across war devastated Europe. S BC Secrets of a Sun King - Emma Carroll. An exciting adventure into the heart of the Golden Age of Egyptian archaeology. S BC Year 8 Viking Saga - Henry Treece. There are three books in this saga. It is AD 780. Viking’s Dawn sees a young Norse boy, Harald Sigurdson, set sail for the Hebrides in the longship ‘Nameless’. The goal: to plunder the helpless coastal villages of Britain. Just five years later, undeterred by his first desperate journey, the dauntless warrior puts to sea once again, in The Road to Miklagard - this time lured by the news of a fabulous hoard of treasure. After a lifetime struggling with the bitter waves, Harald embarks on his last voyage in Viking’s Sunset, this time not for gain but to seek vengeance on a blood enemy. S BC Cane Warriors - Alex Wheatle. A powerfully written story about a slave uprising, told from the point of a view of a 14 year old. S BC History 20/21
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