War Fiction For Teens

Aisha, an orphaned youth from the streets of Baghdad during the Middle Ages, seeks to raise herself from the poverty and squalor that surrounds her. Fleeing her unknown past, and her petty life of crime, the young Persian ventures off to Egypt, where she’s approached by a man who claims to belong to a secret sect of assassins. After the convenience of free food and shelter ceded importance to the heaviness of the dark acts being asked of her, Aisha tries to escape The Order of the Hashashin. But Aisha’s story was more intertwined with The Order’s than was initially apparent.

Andrew rounded the stand of small knobby pines and came face-to-face with two men dressed in blue and holding cocked pistols aimed at him. The year is 1865, and General Sherman’s army has marched into North Carolina and into 11-year-old Andrew’s life. The soldiers slaughter his hogs and take his wounded father prisoner. The make-believe games of war with his friends and dreams of glory are over. He experiences the terrible injustice of war and greed.

Ethan Mire is excited when war is declared and is eager to enlist in the Confederate Army. This is the defining moment of his generation and he wants his chance to achieve glory.

In der Tiefe lauern Monster, doch die schlimmsten erschaffen wir selbst... Die stolzen Wale in Bathsebas Herde leben für die Jagd, riskieren alles in dem ewigen Krieg gegen die Welt der Menschen. Als sie ein treibendes Schiff attackieren, rechnen sie mit leichter Beute. Doch stattdessen stoßen sie auf die Spur einer Legende, eines Monsters, vielleicht des leibhaftigen Teufels selbst...

Lu wird so lange die Luft anhalten, bis Mama es sich anders überlegt und nicht wegen ihres neuen Freundes mit ihr aufs Land zieht. Sie fährt ihre Stacheln aus - muss aber bald schon feststellen, dass Mamas Bauer gar nicht so schlimm ist. Und dann ist da auch noch Julian aus ihrer neuen Klasse.

Sveta and her family have lived happily all their life in a quiet Ukrainian village. However, after their neighbor's block of flats is bombed by a Russian missile, and Sveta makes a gruesome discovery, her tiny safe world suddenly gets turned upside down.

The boys are playing war, and Kara wants to play too. But she has promised Julie that they were going to play hairdressers. It is boring. Kara cannot sit still. Finally, she just leaves to make a weapon. And Julie is very mad at her.

The cybernetic veteran Colonel Shona Morven launches rapid attacks against civilian colonies and cities from world to world, causing destruction wherever he travels. No matter how hard the Dragoons fights, the Colonel is always one step ahead and escapes before the Dragoons can reach him. They plan to capture him by luring him to a Union shipyard on the jungle planet of Olax II. The hunt for Colonel Shona Morven begins, but he is no fool, and he put his own plan into action to draw in the dragoons to a trap he’s planned from the very beginning.

Elizabeth's father had told her that her dreams meant nothing. They were just the tormented imaginings of a young woman serving as a nurse in a traumatic battlefield. But she knew better. And when Robert arrived to rescue her, a rebel in a sea of Union uniforms, her dreams became reality. Civil War Destiny is book 11 of a gently cliff-hangered short story series. The sequence leads up to a happily-ever-after ending. From Renaissance Venice to troubled Scotland, from the Civil War to the Wild West, Elizabeth and Robert find and re-find each other.

Part four of Robot Commandos, a thrilling new series of short adventures that follow Takashi Hiraku and the Robot Commandos. An elite unit of augmented warriors that charge into battle supported by an army of robotic drones. Hostages have been taken on the massive space liner Odyssey. This f15-kilometre-long vessel is being taken to Rebel space and is escorted by a small fleet of deadly rebel gunships. With time running out for the hostages, a crack force is mobilised to bring them home.

‘The sky split open. A sky of brilliant yellow light; a world of noise that filled his ears like sand at the seaside, so that afterwards there was only total silence’. But silence brings terror and grief to Sonny’s family as they come to terms with the loss of his mother in a German bombing raid. In a fit of anguish and grief, his father joins the RAF to avenge her death, and Sonny is left alone. As he fights for survival, Sonny embarks on his own dramatic and intensely personal confrontation with the enemy….