--• World War I •--

Breslin, Theresa – Remembrance 
(296 pages) The destinies of two Scottish families, one of shopkeepers and one of wealth and power, become entwined through their involvement in World War I, social causes, and love.  (N)

Cary, Kate – Bloodline 
(324 pages)  In the trenches of World War I, a solider at first admires then learns to fear his strange, night-walking superior.  Is it true that German soldiers are being horribly mauled by something that isn’t really human, and could this monster be Captain Quincey Harker?  When the soldier returns to England, maddened by trench fever, the mysterious Quincey Harker follows, bringing with him, terror, uncertainty, and possibly vampirism.  (K)

Hemingway, Ernest – A Farewell to Arms  
(342 pages) An injured ambulance driver on the Italian front falls in love with his nurse. But the brutality of war and the effects of his injuries threaten to doom their burgeoning love affair.  (K) 

Myers, Anna – Fire in the Hills  
(161 pages) After her mother's death, sixteen-year-old Hallie faces changes in her life in the hills of eastern Oklahoma in 1918, as she takes over caring for her family and begins thinking about life as a woman.  (N)

Morpugo, Michael – Private Peaceful  
(208 pages) When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his childhood love, Molly, and himself.  (N)

Remarque, Erich -  All Quiet on the Western Front 
(296 pages) Five German students are drafted into World War I.  (N)

Sedgwick, Marcus – The Foreshadowing 
(291 pages) Having always been able to know when someone is going to die, Alexandra poses as a nurse to go to France during World War I to locate her brother and to try to save him from the fate she has foreseen for him.  (N)

Slade, Arthur – Megiddo’s Shadow 
(290 pages)  Furious at the death of his brother in World War I, Edward runs away from his Canadian home to enlist.  After showing a talent for training horses, he is sent to Palestine to serve in the cavalry.  It doesn’t take long for battle to change Edward’s visions of avenging his brother’s death to horror at the reality of bloody war.  (K)

Spillebeen, Geert – Kipling’s Choice  
(153 pages) The famous writer, Rudyard Kipling, pulled strings to get his son into the military, despite the young man’s poor vision.  Leading his first battle, eighteen-year-old John is horribly wounded. As war rages around him, Kipling recalls his life, wondering all the while if he’ll ever see home again.  (K)

Wilson, John – And in the Morning
(198 pages) When fifteen-year-old Jim Hay's father is killed in World War I, Jim is compelled to leave his native Scotland to fight, and struggles with the horrors of war as he tries to survive in the trenches of France.  (N)

Key

N= Synopsis from NoveList
K=Synopsis by librarian

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