Historic fiction recommendations for a 7yo

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Dd is a strong reader and loves history. I want to find her some books that she can get her teeth into but which don't cover topics that are too grown up for her. I have recently bought her Hetty Feather by Jacqueline Wilson (and I've read it whilst she's been away with her dad) which is a fantastic story but it does allude to child abuse and prostitution in the last few chapters.
Any ideas?

Any of the "my story" books
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Says 9-11 but buy 1 and try it!

Horrible Histories.

The My Story books are great, and I would second that recommendation!

Have you tried autobiographies?
The Little House books are great, and dd2 loved When Hitler stole pink rabbit at that age.

I have similar problems with DS1, who is 6. Some of the "My Story" ones are definitely too old for him. He is just getting into the "Roman Mysteries" and reads lots of non-fiction history. Maybe try Rosemary Sutcliff and some of the other "old fashioned" stories, like Cynthia Harnett, Alison Uttley's "A Traveller in Time", "Charlotte Sometimes" (though that made me cry when I was 7, but I still loved it), or the sort of alternative history of Joan Aiken (Wolves of Willoughby chase remains one of my favourite ever books and I think i was about 7 when I 1st read it)

Alison Uttley's The Country Child.

Mary Anning's Treasures. that's a terrible picture of it but I absolutely loved that book.

Not exactly historical - unless you count counterfactual history - but what about the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series?

She's probably a bit young for Cynthia harnett (The Woolpack etc) but perhaps worth having them on the shelf for when she's older?

Has she read Frances Hodgson Burnett (Secret Garden, A Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy)?

I absolutely loved these books from his age until I was twelve. They are the next step up from Horrible Histories. Fiction but using historical characters. Each book ages with the protagonist in the issues it addresses, so the last book is for a young adult rather than a child IMO, but the first few are age appropriate.

Oh! - The Sword in the Stone, by T H White.

Thanks for all these fantastic suggestions.
I've had a look at the My Story books, they look interesting but I think they'll be a bit beyond her - they're written using the language of their period which I'm not sure dd will cope with.
DeWe She's recently read When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit and the first of the Little House books should be thudding onto my doormat tomorrow.
Joan I used to work at the Natural History Museum and regularly bumped into a Mary Anning character actor wandering around the galleries. I'll look out for the book.

I've just ordered The Country Child and Charlotte Sometimes.

apologies for wearymum, i somehow missed that you'd recommended all my suggestions before i ever got there!

'The Dumpy Princess' is a great book about the life of young Queen Victoria.

I really recommend the books of prolific children's author Geoffrey Trease. They may be hard to find now but well worth it. There are many historical fiction and also non-fiction titles. I found his books irresistible as a child.

Have a look at this site for inspiration.

Someone further up the thread mentioned Cynthia Harnett - she is fab and not necessarily too hard for a 7 yo - my primary teacher read us one at around that age and as OP's dd is a strong reader she shouldn't have too much trouble. The pictures are so gorgeous, too.

I adored - 'Mary Annings Treasures' by Helen Bush
'The Country Child' and 'Country Hoard' by Alison Uttley
'The Wool Pack' by Cynthia Hartnett
'Farmer Boy' by Laura Ingalls Wilder (and all the other books)

Geoffrey Trease is one of my all time favourites, similar difficulty level to Cynthia Harnett I'd guess. I also came back to recommend Theresa Breslin, her story "Across the Roman Wall" was devoured in a gulp by DS and he also loved her Dream master one about Pompeii (the other dream master ones were less good)
Books with more complex stories and plenty of pictures are also good, if quicker to read so you might need to get more of them. DS likes Michael Foreman's War Game, The Little Boats (Dunkirk) and also Shirley Hughes' "The Christmas Ghost".

For US stories you could try 'The Children on the Oregon Trail' by A.Rutgers van der Loeff or 'My Side of the Mountain' by Jean George.
'The Wheel on the School' by Meindert de Jong is another interesting one.

Nice to find a fellow traveller! Did you ever come across 'Year of the Black Stallion'? That was pretty brilliant too .
There was another one about a girl in the Mid-West. I can't remember the title, but it had those 40's style illustrations and I do remember they were on a farm, got stuck in a blizzard and, when the radio battery died, restarted it with vinegar and a warm oven.