Not to be confused with My Australian Story or My New Zealand Story. |
My Story is a series of fictional diaries published by Scholastic UK. The series is a United Kingdom version of Dear America. At its launch in 2001, it was separated into a girls and boys line though it was later combined in 2008 with its first relaunch. My Story has been relaunched and redesigned three more times and also had two brief spin-offs, namely My Royal Story and My True Story.
The series originally focused on the history of the United Kingdom. It was expanded to include other countries with its first relaunch in 2008. The books are told through a first person narrative usually in a diary format with either a female or male protagonist. Most of the books feature a fictional main character though a few are based on real-life historical figures.
Background and topics[]
My Story began in 2001 as the United Kingdom version of Dear America. It launched with a reprint of Ellen Emerson White's Voyage on the Great Titanic. Two other Dear America books, A Journey to the New World and A Picture of Freedom, were later republished for the series as well as the My Australian Story book Surviving Sydney Cove. The books written for My Story originally focused only on English, Irish, and Scottish history. The series was originally split into a girls and boys line. A wide array of topics are featured, such as the Great Famine, Henry VIII's reign, and the Jacobite rising of 1745. The books featuring a male protagonist focused mostly on various wars and conflicts.
In 2008, My Story was relaunched for the first time. There was no longer a distinction between the books featuring a female and male protagonist. The topics and settings were expanded with the relaunch. For example, The Fall of the Blade is set in France during the French Revolution and Pyramid of Secrets is set in Ancient Egypt. Two short-lived spin-offs were launched during this time, My Royal Story and My True Story. Many of the books in My Royal Story were reprints from The Royal Diaries. Books with similar themes as the spin-offs were later integrated into the main line, such as Lady Jane Grey, Wartime Princess, Dodger!, and No Way Back.
From 2013 to 2014, several My Story books featuring male protagonists were reprinted with new covers. All of the books focused on war. In 2014, there was a second relaunch of the series. Only one new book, Codename Céline, was published in this relaunch. My Story was relaunched for a third time in 2020. The new books in this relaunch focus on lesser known historical figures, such as Ignatius Sancho, Sophia Duleep Singh, and Noor Inayat Khan. Released in 2022, Mary Prince is currently the latest book in My Story.
List of books[]
Publication order[]
Original[]
2008 relaunch[]
2013 redesign[]
Cover | No. | Title | Author | Published | ISBN |
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1 | War Spy (aka Spy Smuggler) |
Jim Eldridge | July 2013[70] | 9781407136721 |
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2 | Battle of Britain | Chris Priestley | July 2013[71] | 9781407136677 |
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3 | Hero at Dunkirk | Vince Cross | July 2013[72] | 9781407136714 |
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4 | Desert Danger | Jim Eldridge | July 2013[73] | 9781407136691 |
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5 | The Trenches | Jim Eldridge | January 2014[74] | 9781407136738 |
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6 | Flying Ace | Jim Eldridge | January 2014[75] | 9781407136707 |
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7 | D-Day | Bryan Perrett | January 2014[76] | 9781407136684 |
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8 | U-Boat Hunter | Bryan Perrett | January 2014[77] | 9781407136745 |
2014 relaunch[]
2020 relaunch[]
Chronological order[]
- See also: List of books by time period
Notes:
List includes books from the spin-offs, My Royal Story and My True Story.
* - indicates reprints from Dear America, The Royal Diaries, and My Australian Story.
No. | Title | Time period |
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1 | Pyramid of Secrets | 2517 BC[114] |
2 | Princess of Egypt | 1490 BC |
3 | Cleopatra* | 57 – 55 BC |
4 | Pompeii | AD 78 — 79 |
5 | Roman Invasion | AD 84 |
6 | Viking Blood | 1008 |
7 | Agincourt | 1415 |
8 | My Tudor Queen | 1501 — 1513 |
9 | Anne Boleyn and Me | 1525 — 1536 |
10 | Henry VIII's Wives | 1536 — 1548 |
11 | Elizabeth* | 1544 — 1547 |
12 | Lady Jane Grey | 1547 — 1554 |
13 | Bloody Tower | 1553 — 1559 |
14 | Mary, Queen of Scots* | 1553 — 1554 |
15 | The Queen's Spies | 1583 — 1586 |
16 | Armada | 1587 — 1588 |
17 | Mayflower* | 1620 — 1621 |
18 | Civil War | 1643 — 1649[115] |
19 | The Great Plague | 1665 — 1666 |
20 | Highway Girl | 1670 |
21 | Ignatius Sancho | 1737 — 1780 |
22 | The '45 Rising | 1745 — 1746[116] |
23 | Marie Antoinette* | 1769 — 1771 |
24 | No Way Back | 1789 |
25 | Transported* | 1790 |
26 | The Fall of the Blade | 1792 — 1794 |
27 | Trafalgar | 1799 — 1806 |
28 | Mary Prince | 1799 — 1830 |
29 | Waterloo | 1814 — 1817 |
30 | Victoria* | 1829 — 1831 |
31 | Dodger! | 1840 |
32 | Mill Girl | 1842 — 1843 |
33 | The Hunger | 1845 — 1847 |
34 | The Crystal Palace | 1850 — 1851 |
35 | Crimea | 1853 — 1857 |
36 | Indian Mutiny | 1857 — 1858[117] |
37 | Slave Girl* | 1859 — 1860 |
38 | The Sweep's Boy | 1870 |
39 | Victorian Workhouse | 1871 |
40 | Zulu War | 1879[118] |
41 | Princess Sophia Duleep Singh | 1886 — ? |
42 | Factory Girl | 1888 — 1889 |
43 | Twentieth-Century Girl | 1899 — 1900 |
44 | Give Us the Vote! | 1907 |
45 | Suffragette | 1909 — 1913 |
46 | Voyage on the Great Titanic* | 1912 |
47 | Anastasia* | 1914 — 1918 |
48 | Standing Alone | 1914 — 1916 |
49 | Flying Ace | 1915 — 1918 |
50 | Road to War | 1916 — 1917 |
51 | The Trenches | 1917[119] |
52 | Noor-un-Nissa Inayat Khan | 1927 — 1944 |
53 | Berlin Olympics | 1935 — 1936[120] |
54 | Nowhere to Run | 1938 — 1943 |
55 | The Storm to Come | 1939 |
56 | Battle of Britain | 1939 — 1941 |
57 | Wartime Princess | 1939 — 1947 |
58 | Sophie's Secret War | 1939 — 1940 |
59 | U-Boat Hunter | 1939 — 1945 |
60 | War Nurse | 1939 — 1940 |
61 | Hero at Dunkirk | 1940 — 1941 |
62 | Blitz | 1940 — 1941 |
63 | Desert Danger | 1942 — 1943 |
64 | D-Day | 1942 — 1944 |
65 | Spy Smuggler | 1943 |
66 | What If They Find Us? | 1943 — 1945 |
67 | Codename Céline | 1944 |
Spin-offs[]
My Royal Story[]
My Royal Story is a spin-off of My Story. The series consists of republications from the original My Story series and Scholastic America's The Royal Diaries. Only one book, Henry VIII's Wives, is exclusive to My Royal Story.
My True Story[]
A short-live spin-off of My Story. Some books which were originally planned for My True Story were instead published in the main series, including No Way Back and Dodger!. Hero at Dunkirk was added to the main line through subsequent reprints.
Cover | No. | Title | Author | Published | ISBN |
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1 | What If They Find Us? | Kathy Clark | January 2010[132] | 9781407115924 |
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2 | Hero at Dunkirk | Vince Cross | June 2010[133] | 9781407117836 |
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3 | Standing Alone | Jim Eldridge | January 2011[134] | 9781407117829 |
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4 | Give Us the Vote! | Sue Reid | April 2011[135] | 9781407117812 |
Collections[]
Cover | No. | Title | Contains | Published | ISBN |
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1 | War Stories for Boys | Battle of Britain Desert Danger D-Day |
March 2009[136] | 9781407108681 |
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2 | Tudor Stories for Girls | My Tudor Queen Anne Boleyn and Me |
June 2009[137] | 9781407110967 |
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3 | War Stories for Girls | Blitz War Nurse Sophie's Secret War |
September 2009[138] | 9781407114828 |
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4 | Cadogan Square | 1900: A Brand New Century Suffragette |
August 2012[139] | 9781407134765 |
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5 | Courageous First World War Stories | The Trenches Standing Alone Flying Ace |
October 2014[140] | 9781407147345 |
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6 | War Stories | Battle of Britain Desert Danger D-Day |
January 2017[141] | 9781407178639 |
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7 | War Stories: Home and Away | Blitz War Nurse Sophie's Secret War |
January 2017[142] | 9781407178646 |
International editions[]
Books in My Story have been translated and released internationally:
- Several books were translated into Czech under the series title, Můj příběh, by the publisher Egmont.
- Some My Story books in the series were republished in Canada. Like the first iteration of the series, it was separated into a "Boys" and "Girls" line. The "Boys" line used covers from the first iteration and the "Girls" line had covers from the second iteration. Roman Invasion, Pyramid of Secrets, and Viking Blood were given brand-new covers, while Agincourt and Sophie's Secret War were renamed.
- Some of the books were published in the other international series, including Mon Histoire (French), Fy Hanes I (Welsh), and History Behind the Diary (Chinese).
References[]
- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/512855.The_Hunger
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/My-Story-Voyage-Titanic-Margaret/dp/0439997429/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crystal-Palace-Diary-London-1850-1851/dp/0439997399/
- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2439836.Blitz
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/My-Story-Tudor-Puebla-London/dp/0439999405/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Twentieth-Century-Girl-Bonnington-1899-1900/dp/0439999413/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Great-Plague-My-Story/dp/0439992281/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Rising-Diary-Euphemia-Scotland-1745-1746/dp/043999229X/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Civil-War-Adamson-England-1643-1650/dp/0439994241/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/My-Story-Trafalgar-Norseman-1799-1806/dp/0439994217/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trenches-Billy-Stevens-Western-1914-1918/dp/0439994225/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Battle-Britain-Harry-Woods-England-1939-1941-Story/0439994233/
- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1054729.Mill_Girl
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Transported-Diary-Elizabeth-Harvey-Australia/dp/043998114X/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Armada-Story-Thomas-England-1587-1588/dp/0439981123/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crimea-Story-Michael-Regiment-1853-1857/dp/0439981115/
- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/575012.Bloody_Tower
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Indian-Mutiny-Hanuman-Singh-1857-1858/dp/0439981085/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zulu-War-Story-Vince-Cross/dp/0439981077/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mayflower-My-Story-Kathryn-Lasky/dp/0439981158
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Agincourt-Jenkin-Lloyd-France-Story/dp/0439982669/
- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1842603.Suffragette
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Waterloo-My-Story-Bryan-Perrett/dp/0439978173/
- ↑ https://shop.scholastic.co.uk/products/1701
- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2933345-flying-ace
- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/625662.Anne_Boleyn_and_Me
- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/847024.D_Day
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Victorian-Workhouse-Story-Pamela-Oldfield/dp/0439977304/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Spy-Smuggler-Lelaud-France-1942-1944/dp/0439968844/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Desert-Danger-My-Story-Jackson/dp/0439958938/
- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2545840.War_Nurse
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/U-boat-Hunter-Story-Bryan-Perrett/dp/0439959381/
- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3133552-the-queen-s-spies
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Princess-Egypt-Egyptian-Girls-Diary/dp/1407103091/
- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3877779-pompeii
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Road-War-First-World-Girls/dp/1407104616/
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- ↑ https://shop.scholastic.co.uk/products/13535
- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6093480-highway-girl
- ↑ https://shop.scholastic.co.uk/products/69417
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/cka/Sophies-Secret-War-My-Story-Jill-Atkins/1407108654/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Slave-Girl-Story-Patricia-McKissack/dp/1407115162/
- ↑ https://shop.scholastic.co.uk/products/74504
- ↑ https://shop.scholastic.co.uk/products/72164
- ↑ https://shop.scholastic.co.uk/products/72162
- ↑ https://shop.scholastic.co.uk/products/73188
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fall-Blade-My-Story/dp/1407111183/
- ↑ https://shop.scholastic.co.uk/products/77066
- ↑ https://shop.scholastic.co.uk/products/74497
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Titanic-Edwardian-Girls-Diary-Story/dp/1407103784/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Factory-Girl-Story-Pamela-Oldfield/dp/140711672X/
- ↑ https://shop.scholastic.co.uk/products/77071
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/cka/1407117807/
- ↑ https://shop.scholastic.co.uk/products/75526
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wartime-Princess-Story-Valerie-Wilding/dp/1407124056/
- ↑ https://shop.scholastic.co.uk/products/London-Stories-Jim-Eldridge-9781407121956
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Berlin-Olympics-Story-Vince-Cross/dp/1407130358/
- ↑ https://shop.scholastic.co.uk/products/81151
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nowhere-Run-Story-Carol-Drinkwater/dp/1407123858/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Desert-Danger-Story-Jim-Eldridge/dp/1407134752/
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- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Roman-Invasion-Story-Jim-Eldridge/dp/1407165585/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Viking-Blood-Story-Andrew-Donkin/dp/1407165755/
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- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blitz-reloaded-Story-Vince-Cross/dp/1407198874/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Titanic-reloaded-Story-Ellen-Emerson/dp/1407198858/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Plague-reloaded-My-Story/dp/1407198866/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trenches-reloaded-My-Story/dp/140719884X/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Berlin-Olympics-My-Story/dp/1407197916/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Noor-Inayat-Khan-My-Story/dp/0702300055/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mayflower-My-Story-Kathryn-Lasky/dp/0702303593/
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- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Victoria-My-Story-Anna-Kirwan/dp/1407194348/
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- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Princess-Sophia-Duleep-Singh-Story/dp/0702313718/
- ↑ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mary-Prince-My-Story-Norry/dp/0702313823/
- ↑ The epilogue is set during 2484 BC.
- ↑ The epilogue takes place during summer 1650.
- ↑ The final entry takes place during September 1781.
- ↑ The beginning relates some events from 1833 to 1856, while the prologue and epilogue are both set in 1859.
- ↑ Prologue and epilogue set during May 1882.
- ↑ The prologue is set during 1914 and the epilogue during January 1918 to June 1919.
- ↑ The last entry takes place in 1940.
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See also[]
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