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FROM: "Melissa Rice" <mrice@webrary.org>
REC'D: 4/10/02, 11:02 AM

hi,

I have a patron looking for young adult fiction about World War I. Besides,
Rostkowski's After the Dancing Days, does anyone have further suggestions?

Thank you,


Melissa Rice
Reference/Reader's Services Librarian
Morton Grove Public Library
Morton Grove, IL
(847) 965-4220
mrice@webrary.org
http://www.webrary.org
Opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect
official Library policy.

FROM: Jonathan Pearce <able209@attbi.com>
REC'D: 4/10/02, 12:34 PM

on 4/10/02 8:59 AM, Melissa Rice at mrice@webrary.org wrote:

> fiction about World War I.
I read it at age 12 and have never forgotten: Remarque's All Quiet on the
Western Front.
-- --Jonathan Pearce mailto:able209@attbi.com
Balona Books: Soon #15--The Chocolate Korndog--at
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FROM: "Marsha Valance" <Mvalan@mpl.org>
REC'D: 4/10/02, 1:07 PM

Several older titles are:
BEAUX, Evan Commager
WILD WIND, Temple Bailey
A DRINK TO YESTERDAY, Manning Coles
THE GREAT IMPERSONATION, E. Phillips Oppenheim
ONE OF OURS, Willa Cather
THE LION AT SEA, Max Hennessy
AUGUST THE 4TH, Penelope Farmer
GAY-NECK: THE STORY OF A PIGEON, Dhan Mukerji
PICTURES, 1918, Jeanette Ingold
GOODBYE, BILLY RADISH, Gloria Skurzynski
THE AFRICAN QUEEN, C.S. Forester
THE WILD CHILDREN, Felie Holman
BETSY'S WEDDING, Maud Hart Lovelace
SPRING HARVEST, Gladys Taber
CAME A CAVALIER, Frances P. Keyes
RILLA OF INGLESIDE, Lucy M. Montgomery
A few are adult titles, but suitable for YA readers.


Marsha Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
<mvalan@mpl.org>

>>> mrice@webrary.org 04/10/02 10:59AM >>>
hi,

I have a patron looking for young adult fiction about World War I. Besides,
Rostkowski's After the Dancing Days, does anyone have further suggestions?

Thank you,


Melissa Rice
Reference/Reader's Services Librarian
Morton Grove Public Library
Morton Grove, IL
(847) 965-4220
mrice@webrary.org
http://www.webrary.org
Opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect
official Library policy.

FROM: Viccy Kemp <Viccy.Kemp@cityofcarrollton.com>
REC'D: 4/10/02, 1:07 PM

I have not read these books, so I send them with the caveat to look them
over before handing out to a young adult, but Pat Barker wrote a trilogy of
books about WWI:
Eye in the door
Ghost road
Regeneration.
I know that "Eye in the door" features Sigfried Sassoon, the WWI poet.
HTH
Viccy Kemp
The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want em!

-----Original Message-----
From: Melissa Rice [mailto:mrice@webrary.org]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 11:00 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: World War I fiction


hi,

I have a patron looking for young adult fiction about World War I. Besides,
Rostkowski's After the Dancing Days, does anyone have further suggestions?

Thank you,


Melissa Rice
Reference/Reader's Services Librarian
Morton Grove Public Library
Morton Grove, IL
(847) 965-4220
mrice@webrary.org
http://www.webrary.org
Opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect
official Library policy.

FROM: "Melissa Rice" <mrice@webrary.org>
REC'D: 4/10/02, 1:50 PM

Thank you for your suggestions. It was a great help!


Melissa Rice
Reference/Reader's Services Librarian
Morton Grove Public Library
Morton Grove, IL
(847) 965-4220
mrice@webrary.org
http://www.webrary.org
Opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect
official Library policy.

FROM: "Melanie C. Duncan" <duncanm@mail.bibb.public.lib.ga.us>
REC'D: 4/10/02, 3:28 PM

Patricia Anthony, FLANDERS
Sebastian Faulks, BIRDSONG
Thomas Fleming, OVER THERE
Mark Helprin, A SOLDIER OF THE GREAT WAR
Ernest Hemingway, A FAREWELL TO ARMS
Guy Johnson, STANDING AT THE SCRATCH LINE

Alternate history
Harry Turtledove's THE GREAT WAR series


Melanie C. Duncan
Reference/ILL/YA
Washington Memorial Library, Macon, Georgia
Senior Member, GNLIB-L
Christian Fiction Columnist, Library Journal
Editor/Publisher, The Bookdragon Review
(www.bookdragonreview.com)
All opinions expressed are my own.

FROM: JANE BAIRD <lijhb@library.ci.anchorage.ak.us>
REC'D: 4/10/02, 10:55 PM

More suggestions:

No hero for the Kaiser by Rudolf Frank
Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian
Homecoming by Elsa Posell
Pictures, 1918 by Jeanette Ingold
After the dancing days by Margaret Rostkowski
The ornament tree by Jean Thesman

These all take place between 1914 and 1919. In some the war is not the
central theme but it is at least mentioned in all of them.

Jane Baird
Young Adult Librarian
Anchorage Municipal Libraries

FROM: "christine jeffords" <sevenstars39@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 4/11/02, 7:35 AM

>From: "Marsha Valance" <Mvalan@mpl.org>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <Fiction_L@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <fiction_l@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: World War I fiction
>Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:51:08 -0500
>
>Several older titles are:
>

How could you forget "All Quiet on the Western Front," by E. M. Remarque?

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FROM: "Marsha Valance" <Mvalan@mpl.org>
REC'D: 4/11/02, 8:18 AM

I didn't forget it; it had been suggested already.


Marsha Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
<mvalan@mpl.org>

>>> sevenstars39@hotmail.com 04/11/02 07:24AM >>>

>From: "Marsha Valance" <Mvalan@mpl.org>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <Fiction_L@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <fiction_l@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: World War I fiction
>Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:51:08 -0500
>
>Several older titles are:
>

How could you forget "All Quiet on the Western Front," by E. M. Remarque?

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FROM: Danielle Pilon <danielle_pilon@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 4/11/02, 11:09 AM

Hi Melissa,

Here's a list I prepared a few months ago when I was
looking for the same thing. Some are merely set in the
same time period, others involve the actual war.

Farmer, Penelope. Charlotte Sometimes. A girl changes
places in time with a girl living at a boarding school
in England during WWI.
McKay, Sharon E. Charlie Wilcox.
Pevsner, Stella. Call me Heller, that's my name.
Peyton, K. M. The Flambard's Trilogy (Flambards, The
Edge of the Cloud, Flambards in Summer). Set in
England before, during, and after WWI.
Richard, Adrienne. Wings.
Skurzynski, Gloria. Good-bye, Billy Radish. [set in
USA during WWI]
Voigt, Cynthia. Tree by leaf.

You might also suggest Patricia Anthony's FLANDERS,
which is told in the form of letters from an American
volunteer to his younger brother at home.

Also, re: the Pat Barker trilogy - these are excellent
books! However, if your patron is likely to be put off
by bi/homosexuality, they might not be the best
choice.


> I have a patron looking for young adult fiction
> about World War I. Besides,
> Rostkowski's After the Dancing Days, does anyone
> have further suggestions?


=====
Danielle Pilon, MLIS
Assistant Librarian
Selkirk & St. Andrews Regional Library

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FROM: Dennis Lien <Dennis.K.Lien-1@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 4/11/02, 12:13 PM

>
>I have a patron looking for young adult fiction about World War I. Besides,
>Rostkowski's After the Dancing Days, does anyone have further suggestions?
>
>Thank you,
>
>
>Melissa Rice
>Reference/Reader's Services Librarian
>Morton Grove Public Library

A search in our OPAC turns up the following (though subject headings
for fiction are often not assigned):

Search Request: K=WAR 1914 1918 AND (FICTION OR LITERATURE) AND JUVENILE
Search Results: 24 Entries Found Keyword
Index

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DATE TITLE: AUTHOR:
1 2002 A time for courage : the diary of Kathleen Lasky, Kathryn
UL
2 1993 War game Foreman, Michael
UL
3 1989 The private war of Lillian G. Adams Corcoran, Barbara
UL
4 1985 Tikhon Vogel, Ilse
Margre UL
5 1984 Tikhon Vogel, Ilse
Margre UL
6 1983 Tikhon <mixed-matl> Vogel, Ilse
Margre UL
7 1981 The novels of World War I : an annotated b Hager, Philip E
UL
8 1976 An album of World War I Hoobler, Dorothy
UL
9 1968 The First World War Musman, Richard
UL
10 1968 Over here and over there: the era of the F Werstein, Irving
UL
11 1967 Aeroplanes of World War I Linecar, Howard
W. UL
12 1966 The First World War Field, Gordon L
UL
13 1958 Beaux Commager, Evan
UL
14 1950 Beaux <mixed-matl> Bodecker, N. M
UL
15 1928 Renfrew rides the sky Erskine, Laurie
Yo UL
16 1919 Blue Bonnet of the seven stars : a sequel Richards, Lela
Hor UL
17 1919 The boy allies with the victorious fleets Drake, Robert L
UL
18 1919 Captain Lucy in France Havard, Aline
UL
19 1918 Uncle Sam's Boy at war : an American boy s Austin, Oscar
Phel UL
20 1917 The battle line of democracy: prose and po United States
UL
21 1916 The first year of the great war, being the Wilson, Richard
UL
22 1916 Tales of the great war Newbolt, Henry
Joh UL
23 1915 Heroes and heroic deeds of the great war Mackenzie, Donald
UL
24 1914 Told in gallant deeds : a child's history Lowndes, Marie
Ade UL


Record number 7 above is for a bibliography that covers both adult and
juvenile fiction; however, our copy is a reference book and would not be
available on InterLibrary Loan. Perhaps a library in your vicinity
has a copy...


------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Author: Hager, Philip E.

Title: The novels of World War I : an annotated bibliography /
Philip
E. Hager, Desmond Taylor.

Published: New York : Garland Pub., 1981.

Description: xvii, 513 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects, Library of Congress (Use s=):
World War, 1914-1918--Fiction--Bibliography.
World War, 1914-1918--Juvenile fiction--Bibliography.


Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien@tc.umn.edu

FROM: Bsbgc@aol.com
REC'D: 5/7/02, 3:10 AM

A really remarkable novel (IMHO) is Dalton Trumbo's JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN, which
takes place during WWI, and is about a horrifically wounded young soldier.
It was written in 1938.

Info available at google on a search using the book title. Of course, much
other criticism is available both on and off line.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

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