Find out about the life of Mary Seacole. Read about her childhood and discover how she learned about herbal medicines. Learn about her hotel and shop and find out how she helped soldiers on the battlefields of the Crimean War.

A simple fun picture quiz helps readers to recall what they have read.

A perfect one-stop-shop for help with homework assignments!

Broad-ranging appeal for nursery age through to Key Stage 2.

This book features in the following series: Fact Cat-History, History Series .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 2. KS2 covers school years 4, 5 and 6, and ages 8-11 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks.

There are 24 pages in this book. This book was published 2017 by Hachette Children's Group .

Izzi Howell is an editor and author of books for children.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: Who was Mary Seacole?
• 2: Childhood
• 3: Early Life
• 4: The War Begins
• 5: Going to Crimea
• 6: The British Hotel
• 7: On the battlefields
• 8: After the Crimean War
• 9: Later years