Status
Available
Collection
Publication
HarperCollins (2000), Edition: Reprint, 217 pages
Description
A forbidden friendship with a badly disfigured soldier in the aftermath of World War I forces thirteen-year-old Annie to redefine the word "hero" and to question conventional ideas of patriotism.
Subjects
Awards
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Middle Grade — 1989)
Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — Young Adult — 1989)
Utah Beehive Book Award (Nominee — Young Adult — 1991)
Cardinal Cup (Winner — 1987)
William Allen White Children's Book Award (Nominee — 1988-1989)
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee)
Sunshine State Young Reader's Award (Nominee — 1990)
Golden Kite Award (Winner — Fiction — 1987)
Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature (Honor Book — 1987)
California Young Reader Medal (Nominee — 1989)
ILA Children's and Young Adults' Book Award (Young Adult Category — 1987)
Best Fiction for Young Adults (Selection — 1986)
CCBC Choices (1986)
Language
Original language
English