Scottish historical fiction books for DS12

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Can anyone help with some Scottish historical fiction books my 12 year old son might enjoy please?

He has read A Desperate Journey and The Boy with the Bronze Axe.

Maybe The Accidental Time Traveller trilogy by Janis Mackay? Depending on his preferences it might be a bit on the young side, but it’s a lovely little group of books.

Sorry, should have said that in the first book a child comes to the present from the past, but the historical connection is there; and in the second book they go back to an earlier period; and the historical aspect is well done.

Not sure of age but DD loved the Roman Mysteries - Caroline Lawrence

Nigel Tranter. There's a few series, but also some standalone books (I got hooked after pickup up "The Wisest Fool" in a bookshop - it's about the early years of James I/VI reign).

Ignore me _ I am brain dead - I saw historical but not Scottish I am a dork!

Karen McCombie's Little Bird Flies and Geraldine McCaughrean's Where The World Ends.

Kidnapped - RLS?

The Sterkarm Handshake is fab - modern company sends people back to the 16th century Borders in order to exploit the natural resources but the reivers turn out to be less easy to manipulate than they expected.

Oh yes Kidnapped, and also Catriona

Sorry, no suggestions (unusual for me!) but just sitting on the thread for others'

Walter Scott, if he's really keen?

64s, Blue, I was in two minds about Scott, I've not read recently to know whether they might be a bit overblown for the age. Now you've suggested them, I'll go and have a look at them for the first time in years.

Do, but I actually meant RLS as a different pp suggested, rather than Scott I haven’t read any Scott myself.

But Stevenson is great and relatively accessible, and I seem to remember thinking Catriona (sequel to Kidnapped) was really underrated although it was a long, long time ago that I read either of them.

Thanks so much for all your suggestions 😊. I will go and do some book shopping

Fleshmarket by Nicola Morgan is excellent. Burke and Hare feature. Main character is a young boy trying to survive fairly harsh circumstances in early-1800s Edinburgh.

Mollie Hunter - The Stronghold and many others

Sterkarm Handshake is brilliant.

Bonnie Dundee by Rosemary Sutcliff (about the Covenanters)

The DK Broster series about the Jacobites?

I read them as a young teenager. They are MILES MILES MILES better (and more accurate) than the Outlander soft-porn tosh.
There are three:

The Flight of the Heron
The Dark Mile
The Gleam in the North

Also, as others have said, anything by RL Stevenson. Kidnapped, Treasure Island...even Jeckyll and Hyde. He captures the Scottish mind better than almost anyone, of any class/backround.

For rather older teens:

Jean Plaidy's Scottish books: The Hammer of the Scots, Mary Queen of Scots etc

Also, ditto for older teens: Mary Stewart's Arthurian romances (some sex/romance, but nothing graphic):
The Crystal Gave
The Hollow Hills
The Last Enchantment

very insightful biography of Mary Stewart here:
www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/15/mary-stewart

Crystal Cave ffs sake. Very sorry about typo.

Agree with anything by Mollie Hunter. A Pistol at Greenyards and the Thirteenth Member are my faves