Lines of Courage
Scholastic Inc. · Paperback · February 6, 2024
Jennifer A. Nielsen, author of A Night Divided and Rescue, artfully weaves together the stories of five kids living through World War I who each hold the key to each other’s futures... if they are lucky -- and brave -- enough to find each other.
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- Who it’s for
- Five young lives make World War I feel intimate, urgent, and intertwined.
- Genres
- Wars & Military History, Historical Europe, War & Military Stories
- Published
- Scholastic Inc., February 6, 2024
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Jennifer A. Nielsen, author of A Night Divided and Rescue, artfully weaves together the stories of five kids living through World War I who each hold the key to each other’s futures... if they are lucky -- and brave -- enough to find each other. World War I stretches its cruel fingers across Europe, where five kids feel war's scarcity and challenges in different ways.
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Felix, from Austria-Hungary, wants the courage to fight against Jewish deportations before his own family can be taken. Kara, from Britain, wants to be a Red Cross nurse. Juliette, of France, hopes her family can remain knitted together in the face of the war's longest battle. Elsa, from Germany, hopes her homing pigeon might one day bring her a friend among the chaos. And Dimitri, of Russia, wants only to survive the front, where he's been sent with no weapon. None of them will find exactly what they want. But the winds of fate may cross their paths to give each of them just what they need.
Lives in the Crossfire
Five young lives make World War I feel intimate, urgent, and intertwined.
Come here for
- A many-sided view of wartime Europe through five young lives
- Courage and survival under very different pressures
Expect
- Intersecting perspectives shaped by scarcity, danger, and uncertainty
- A serious wartime story with hope threaded through hardship
Where it sits
| Wars & Military History | 72% |
|---|---|
| Historical Europe | 56% |
| War & Military Stories | 39% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Historical Europe
- Wars & Military History
- War & Military Stories
- Authors
- Jennifer A. Nielsen
- Publisher
- Scholastic Inc.
- Published
- February 6, 2024
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- Historical Europe