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Title details for Don't You Know There's a War On? by Avi - Available

Don't You Know There's a War On?

by Avi
Nick Landrum
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Newbery Award-winning, New York Times best-selling author Avi recreates the sights and sounds of wartime Brooklyn in this fast-paced story. Like every student in Miss Gossim's 1943 fifth-grade class, Howie Crispers has one thing on his mind: World War II. When he isn't in school, Howie stays busy watching for Nazi spies. So when he notices his principal acting suspiciously, it's his patriotic duty to investigate. But what he discovers is far more devastating than any headline at the newsstand.

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  • Release date

    December 1, 2013

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781470390594
      • File size: 107408 KB
      • Duration: 03:43:45

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 500
    • Text Difficulty: 1-2

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This captivating recollection of WWII features a New York schoolboy named Howie. He has a schoolboy crush on his fifth-grade teacher, and when he learns that she is to be fired, he leads the fight to keep her . The story is filled with the small details of life on the home front during the War years, as well as some of the confusion of a boy on the verge of becoming a man while his father is away. Nick Landrum does a good Brooklyn accent. He's a bit slow in his delivery, but still a lot of fun to listen to. M.T.F. (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 20, 2003
      The 16-year-old narrator juggles everything from failing math grades and air raid blackouts to a crush on his teacher and worries about his merchant marine father crossing the North Atlantic, in this "poignant, funny coming of age tale set in Brooklyn during WWII," said PW
      in a starred review. Ages 8-12.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 1, 2001
      Sixteen-year-old Howie Crispers narrates Avi's (The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle) poignant, funny coming-of-age tale set in Brooklyn during WWII. For the facts, readers can consult Stephen E. Ambrose's excellent volume (reviewed below), but for a flavor of everyday life on the homefront, they will appreciate Howie's recollections of his experiences as a fifth grader during one pivotal week in March 1943. The hero juggles everything from failing math grades and air raid blackouts to a crush on his teacher and worries about his merchant marine father, criss-crossing the North Atlantic. Howie also suspects his principal of being a Nazi spy, and follows him into a brownstone one morning where he overhears plans to fire his beloved teacher, Miss Rolanda Gossim (he thinks of her at night when fear overtakes him: "She was my emergency brake, my life raft, my parachute, my own private rescue squad"). How he "saves" Miss Gossim makes for a smashing story enlivened by the added emotional texture of a boy dealing with wartime realities (particularly the death of his "bestest" friend Denny's father) and romance (Miss Gossim is actually married to a missing airman and pregnant). Howie's voice, firmly rooted in Brooklyn ("You'd feel worse than a Giants fan in Ebbets Field," he says of disappointing Miss Gossim), takes on the inflections and slang of the era. The novel ends on an upbeat note, with 16-year-old Howie celebrating the end of the war and still carrying a torch for Miss Gossim. Ages 8-12.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:500
  • Text Difficulty:1-2

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