Title A rose for the Anzac boys / Jackie French

Published Pymble, N.S.W. : HarperCollins, 2008

Copies

Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'PONDS CRC	JUNIOR FICTION Fre/Rft		1 HOLD
MELB CRC	JUNIOR FICTION Fre/Rft		AVAILABLE
W'BOOL CRC	JUNIOR FICTION Fre/Rft		AVAILABLE
MELB SPCBC	819 French Jac/Rft		LIB USE ONLY

Description 289 pages ; 20 cm regular print Series Children's Book Council of Australia awards ; 2009 Summary "The story starts in 1915. Midge Macpherson is at school in England, having been sent there from New Zealand after her father's death. Her brothers are both serving in the war; her younger brother was last heard of at the Gallipoli campaign earlier that year. Her cousins are serving in the British army. Keen to 'do their bit' for the war effort, Midge and her school friends, Ethel and Anne, start up a canteen behind the front in France. Midge, resourceful for her years, is 'borrowed' by the ambulance service, thus witnessing at close hand the carnage of the battlefields, and hearing the stories of those who come back. She sings songs to the dying, learns to tolerate hit-and-miss anaesthesia and twelve-hour shifts, and meets some remarkable people. She accepts a birthday gift of a drawing, done by a blinded soldier, of a vase of roses. And, on her return to New Zealand, discovers that her world has changed, and she must seek out her future in Australia." -- Provided by publisher Notes "World War I - as seen through the eyes of three young women." --Front cover Audience For secondary school age Notes Children's Book Council of Australia short-listed book Subject Children's stories, Australian. Soldiers -- Fiction. Soldiers -- Juvenile fiction. War casualties -- Fiction. War casualties -- Juvenile fiction. War -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction. War -- Psychological aspects -- Juvenile fiction. Women and war -- Fiction. Women and war -- Juvenile fiction. Women in war -- Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 -- Juvenile fiction. World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula -- Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula -- Juvenile fiction. World War, 1914-1918 -- France -- Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 -- France -- Juvenile fiction. World War, 1914-1918 -- New Zealand -- Fiction. World War, 1914-1918 -- New Zealand -- Juvenile fiction. Young adult fiction. World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula. World War, 1914-1918 -- New Zealand. Genre/Form Historical fiction. War fiction. Fiction. LC no. 2009459197 ISBN 9780732285401 (paperback)

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