Authors: Various Edited by Michael Morpurgo

Published: 2009

Publisher: Longman/Pearson

Format: Hardback

Pages: 296

Suitable: Secondary (Ages 11+)

Specially commissioned by the former Children's Laureate, Michael Morpurgo, the fifteen original stories in this collection encompass a wide range of different conflicts from the past thousand years. The collection contains stories from some of the best children's authors around, including Jamila Gavin, Nina Bawden, Eva Ibbotson, Elizabeth Laird, Geraldine McCaughean, Robert Westall and Michael Morpurgo.