Mr. Wilson's WW I Books Fiction
November 12, 2007
| These books are
available in the Farragut School Library. Annotations courtesy of OPAC, Follett, Inc. |
Fic Bag HS
Bagdasarian, Adam. Forgotten fire. The story of how Vahan Kenderian survived the Turkish massacre of the Armenians in 1915.
Fic Dan HS
Dank, Milton. Khaki wings : a novel. . In the summer of 1914, not quite seventeen-year-old Edward applies to the Royal Flying Corps to train as a pilot and soon finds himself in the thick of the bitter and disillusioning war.
Fic Dan HS
Dank, Milton. Red flight two. A brave young officer of the Royal Flying Corp witnesses the devastating effects of World War I while serving with a group flying the newly developed Sopwith Camels.
Fic Fit HS
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott). . This side of paradise.
Fic For HS
Forester, C. S. (Cecil Scott). The African Queen. Reprint of the 1935 novel about Rose, a spinster working as a missionary in Africa, and Allnutt, a mechanic-of-all-work, who team up out of necessity and hatch a plan to help the war effort by building and launching torpedoes at a German police steamer.
Fic Hem HS
Hemingway, Ernest. A farewell to arms. An American ambulance driver serving on the Austro-Italian front becomes entangled with an English nurse and deserts to join her after the retreat of Caparetto.
Fic Hou HS
Hough, Richard Alexander. Flight to victory. Sixteen-year-old Will leaves his home, his school, and his youth behind to become a pilot in World War I.
Fic Lar HS
Larson, Kirby. Hattie Big Sky. Sixteen-year-old Hattie Brooks inherits her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana in 1917 and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war in Europe.
Fic Las
Lasky, Kathryn. A time for courage : the suffragette diary of Kathleen Bowen. A diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family. Includes a historical note.
Fic Pla HS
Plain, Belva. The sight of the stars. Adam Arnring, the son of an Irish immigrant mother and a Jewish peddler father, leaves home in 1907 at the age of nineteen and travels to the American West where he is determined to shape his own destiny--creating what is to become one of the country's great retail companies.
Fic Rem HS
Remarque, Erich Maria. All quiet on the western front. Depicts the experiences of a group of young German soldiers fighting and suffering during the last days of World War I.
Fic Ros HS
Rostkowski, Margaret I. After the dancing days. 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.
Fic Spi HS
Spillebeen, Geert. Kipling's choice. A fictionalized biography of eighteen-year-old John Kipling, son of writer Rudyard Kipling, who remembers his boyhood and the events leading up to World War I, as he lies dying on a battlefield in France.
Fic Voi HS
Voight, Cynthia. Tree by leaf. A father's return home following World War I creates problems for his family, especially for twelve-year-old Clothilde, who struggles to accept his horrible disfigurement and opposes her mother's plan to sell Clothilde's land, a peninsula off the coast of Maine, to help pay the family's expenses.
Fic Wel HS
Welch, Ronald. Tank commander. As a result of his experience on the front line in France, a young British officer finds himself participating in the first tank warfare of World War I.
