This book, written in diary form, tells what it would have been like as a young girl at the end of the nineteenth century.
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My Story, Bloody Tower, The Diary of Tilly Middleton, London 1553-1559 by Valerie Wilding
A great way to get kids interested in History.
My Story, The Great Plague, The Diary of Alice Paynton, London, 1665-1666 by Pamela Oldfield
This is a great book for kids to learn about what life was like in London during the Great Plague of 1665.