Theme: World War I

The Lost Crown

By Book Importer | Published: September 28, 2011

Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia–like the fingers on a hand, Tatiana the tallest, Anastasia the smallest, Maria the one most desperate for a ring. These are the daughters of the Tsar, the daughters of the last royal Russian family. Acclaimed author Sarah Miller writes with lyricism, criticism and true compassion as she tracks this loving [...]

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My Brother’s Shadow

By Book Importer | Published: September 26, 2011

As World War I draws to a close in 1918, German citizens are starving and suffering under a repressive regime. Sixteen-year-old Moritz is torn. His father died in the war and his older brother still risks his life in the trenches, but his mother does not support the patriotic cause and attends subversive socialist meetings. [...]

Descriptors: Europe, Germany, Historical Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

A Rose for the Anzac Boys

By Book Importer | Published: September 7, 2011

The story starts in 1915. Midge Macpherson is at school in England, having been sent there from New Zealand after her father’s death. Her brothers are both serving in the war; her younger brother was last heard of at the Gallipoli campaign earlier that year. Her cousins are serving in the British army. Keen to [...]

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Truce

By Book Importer | Published: February 8, 2010

On July 29th 1914, the world’s peace was shattered as the artillery of the Austria-Hungary Empire began shelling the troops of the country to its south. What followed was like a row of falling dominoes as one European country after another rushed into war. Soon most of Europe was fighting in this calamitous war that [...]

Descriptors: Belgium, Europe, France, Germany, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Nonfiction » Other Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

Stolen Voices: Young People’s War Diaries, from World War I to Iraq

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

Zlata Filipovic’s diary of her harrowing war experiences in the Balkans, published in 1993, made her a globally recognized spokesperson for children affected by military conflict. In Stolen Voices, she and co-editor Melanie Challenger have gathered fifteen diaries of young people coping with war, from World War I to the struggle in Iraq that continues [...]

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Silent in an Evil Time: The Brave War of Edith Cavell

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Dutiful nurse, hospital matron, courageous resistance fighter, Edith Cavell was all of these. A British citizen, the forty-eight-year-old Cavell was matron of an institute for nurses in the suburbs of Brussels at the outbreak of World War I. Dedicated to the methods of Florence Nightingale, her intelligence and ferocious sense of duty had transformed the [...]

Descriptors: Belgium, England (UK), Germany, Historical Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Big Lie: A True Story

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

The author describes her experiences as a survivor of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz during World War II.

Descriptors: Biography, Europe, Hungary, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Nonfiction » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Donkey of Gallipoli: A True Story of Courage in World War I

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

When Jack Simpson was a boy in England, he loved leading donkeys along the beach for a penny a ride. So when he enlists as a stretcher bearer in World War I, his gentle way with those animals soon leads him to his calling. Braving bullets and bombs on the battlefields of Gallipoli, Jack brings [...]

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Memorial

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

A Moreton Bay Fig tree, planted as a memorial to Australian soldiers killed in World War I, is slated to be cut down by the local council. A young boy tells the moving story of the tree, as related by his great grandfather, grandfather, and father, each of whom has participated in wars over the [...]

Descriptors: Australia, Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Oceania, Picture Book » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

The Silver Donkey

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

From extraordinary novelist Sonya Hartnett comes a gently told fable of a lost soldier, heroic children, and a steadfast donkey.One morning in the woods of World War I France, two young sisters stumble upon an astonishing find — a soldier, temporarily blinded by war, who has walked away from battle longing to see his gravely [...]

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