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Age 14
It is 1913, and twelve-year-old Patrick Condon wants to escape his unexciting life in Ireland. So he hatches a plan. Not wanting to wait until he is old enough to join the army, Patrick lies and says he seventeen years old, and that his name is John Condon. Assuming the identity of his older brother, Patrick enlists. John fits in quickly, though it is obvious that John is not 17, or even 16. That doesn’t matter. John is strong, fast, and a hard worker. He loves military life. This man’s world is just what John wanted. But when WWI begins in 1914, John gets all he has been looking for, and more he does not expect, as he is just a boy...
Kipling's Choice
Now available in paperback, this moving historical novel examines the lost days of Rudyard Kipling's son, John who was killed in his first battle of World War I.
Re-Imagining the First World War
In the Preface to his ground-breaking The Great War and Modern Memory (1975), Paul Fussell claimed that “the dynamics and iconography of the Great War have proved crucial political, rhetorical, and artistic determinants on subsequent life.” Forty years after the publication of Fussell’s study, the contributors to this volume reconsider whether the myth generated by World War I is still “part of the fiber of [people’s] lives” in English-speaking countries. What is the place of the First World War in cultural memory today? How have the literary means for remembering the war changed since the war? Can anything new be learned from the effort to re-imagine the First World War after ot...
Literature for Young Adults
Young adults are actively looking for anything that connects them with the changes happening in their lives, and the books discussed throughout Literature for Young Adults have the potential to make that connection and motivate them to read. It explores a great variety of works, genres, and formats, but it places special emphasis on contemporary works whose nontraditional themes, protagonists, and literary conventions make them well suited to young adult readers. It also looks at the ways in which contemporary readers access and share the works they're reading, and it shows teachers ways to incorporate nontraditional ways of accessing and sharing books throughout their literature programs. I...
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Jimmy Duffy kampioen in de Loopgraven
Jimmy Duffy wordt jeugdkampioen van Schotland in het hardlopen. Maar Jimmy heeft een hekel aan trainen. Hij gaat liever op café. Als jongeman verhuist hij naar Canada. Een jaar later loopt hij voor zijn nieuwe land op de Olympische Spelen van 1912. Jimmy wint de ene marathon na de andere, ook die van Boston in 1914. Kort daarna breekt de Eerste Wereldoorlog uit. Jimmy meldt zich als soldaat. "Ik loop recht naar Berlijn", belooft hij zijn vrienden. In 1915 zijn de kogels hem te snel af. Jimmy Duffy sneuvelt bij Ieper. Geert Spillebeen is radiojournalist voor de VRT-nieuwsdienst. Hij schrijft boeken voor jongeren, die meestal over de Eerste Wereldoorlog gaan. De verhalen zijn altijd echt gebeurd.
Best Books for Young Adults
This is a classic, standard resource for collection building and on-the-spot readers advisory absolutely indispensable for school and public libraries.
Senior High Core Collection
Features annotations for more than 6,200 works in the main volume (2007), and more than 2,400 new titles in three annual supplements published 2008 through 2010. New coverage of biographies, art, sports, Islam, the Middle East, cultural diversity, and other contemporary topics keeps your library's collection as current as today's headlines.
The Kipling Journal
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