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The Great War

Stories Inspired by Items from the First World War

The Great War( )
Author: Almond, David
Boyne, John
Chevalier, Tracy
Dubosarsky, Ursula
Fombelle, Timothée
Geras, Adèle
Kennedy, A. L.
Morpurgo, Michael
Sedgwick, Marcus
Stone, Tanya Lee
Wilkinson, Sheena
Illustrator: Kay, Jim
Read by: Evers-Swindell, Nico
Jackson, J. D.
Doyle, Gerard
Halverson, Richard
Coomes, Sarah
Podehl, Nick
ISBN:978-1-5012-1586-5
Publication Date:Apr 2015
Publisher:Brilliance Publishing, Inc.
Imprint:Candlewick on Brilliance Audio
Book Format:CD-Audio
List Price:USD $24.99
Book Description:

In a powerful collection, eleven internationally acclaimed fiction writers draw on personal objects to bring the First World War to life for listeners of all ages.

A toy soldier. A butter dish. A compass. Mundane objects, perhaps, but to the remarkable authors in this collection, artifacts such as these have inspired stories that go to the heart of the human experience of World War I. Each author was invited to choose an object that had a connection to the war--a writing...
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Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.5 x 5.5 x 0.63 Inches
Book Weight:0.52 Pounds
Author Biography
Almond, David (Author)
David Almond was born on May 15, 1951 in the United Kingdom. He writes novels for children and young adults including The Savage, Slog's Dad, My Name Is Mina, The Boy Who Swam with Piranhas, and The Tightrope Walkers. He has received numerous awards including the Carnegie Medal for Skellig, two Whitbread Awards, the Michael L. Printz Award for young-adult books for Kit's Wilderness, the Smarties Prize and the Boston Globe Horn Book Award for The Fire-Eaters, the 2015 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for A Song for Ella Grey, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award.

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