Ideas for dd1 who adores reading and is obsessed with history?

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She's borrowed most of the horrible history books from the school library. I was wondering if there were any childrens novels with a history element to them?

I have never read The Woolpack, Scaryteacher. I really must get hold of it, I have been meaning to for years now.

Woolpack is completely lovely.
Lombards - how to get into a doublet when you're quite new to them - how to come to terms, with no trauma whatsoever, with an arranged betrothal - why bits of England were so very prosperous -

My Friende Walter By Michael Morpurgo has a historical element. If she is a good reader in year 4 it should be about the right level for her.

Although I'm a big fan of Rosemary Sutcliff I do have to report that ds (8, Yr4 but an omnivorous and accomplished reader) has found The Eagle of the Ninth too demanding. Brother Dusty Feet I remember being less adult in its themes.
(Mind you he now claims to be loving Watership Down of all things, but that's a whole other thread)
My cousin gave him Cue for Treason at Easter so that's next on the list

Yes - even I thought Eagle of Ninth (read it a couple of years ago, having missed it back then) a bit demanding.

Marina - with the usual eggs-evacuation caveat - has your ds had Viking Dawn/Sunset/Whatever yet? As I could see him liking those. (They are beyond my ds for now, who is in comfy permanent Philip Reeve territory.)

Marina, my DS struggled with Eagle of the Ninth at the same age but loved it when I read it to him. It's stil one of my favorite books.

Must get DS onto Watership Down.

Just bought The Wool-pack for 50p on Abebooks - hooray!
Meanwhile, DD1 has been off school today with a bug and has read the whole of Anne of Green Gables and is half-way through Anne of Avonlea. She is not going to want to go back to school tomorrow!

He hasn't tried them bink, and I will add them to The List, thanks

has no one mentioned the little house books?

my ds LOVES them (he is 4)

The later books are definately aimed at older readers

Also, and I'm sure someone HAS said this, an option would be simply books that were written some time ago? I liked jane eyre and thomas hardy, and bizarely, sherlock holmes when I was about 11 or so (prob a lot went over my head BUT they were fun to read)

oh other books I liked at this age is the molly weir books-shoes were for sunday and so forth.

and there is something about children of some forest or other - winnifred foley?

am wondering if these are too modern though

someone has said cynthia harnett, surely, but especially the load of unicorn.