Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library
Youth Services Department

World War I Fiction


Bosse, Malcolm J. Deep Dream of the Rain Forest. Y FIC Bosse
While on an expedition with his uncle in the jungles of World War I Borneo in 1920, fifteen-year-old Harry Windsor is captured by Bayang, a young Iban tribesman, who believes that Harry has some power to help him and an outcast Iban girl on their dream quest.

Dank, Milton. Khaki Wings.  Y FIC Dank
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.

Frank, Rudolf. No Hero for the Kaiser. Y FIC Frank
Jan, a fourteen-year-old Polish boy whose town is invaded in World War I, joins a German battalion and experiences the horrors of battle.

Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms.  YPB H // (Adult) Fic Hemingway // PB H
This novel about WW1 focuses on the romance of an American soldier and a British nurse. The soldier's desertion is against the backdrop of the cruelty and ugliness of war.

Hesse, Karen.  A Time of Angels.  Y FIC Hesse
Sick with influenza during the 1918 epidemic and separated from her two sisters, a young Jewish girl living in Boston relies on the help of an old German man, and her visions of angels, to get better and to reunite herself with her family.

Hunter, Mollie. A Sound of Chariots.  Y FIC Hunter
A young girl growing up in Scotland after World War I tries to come to terms with her grief over her father's death and her increasing sense of the passage of time.

Ingold, Jeanette.  Pictures, 1918. Y FIC Ingold
Coming of age in a rural Texas community in 1918, fifteen-year-old Asia assists in the local war effort, contemplates romance with a local boy, and expands her horizons through her pursuit of photography.

Lawrence, Iain.  Lord of the Nutcracker Men.  Y FIC Lawrence
An English boy during World War I comes to believe that the battles he enacts with his toy soldiers control the war his father is fighting on the front.

Little, Jean.  His Banner over Me. Y FIC Little
Flora Gauld faces the challenges of taking care of her younger brother, William, and living with her aunt and uncle in Canada, while her parents return to Taiwan as missionaries.

Montgomery, L. M.  Rilla of Ingleside.(Anne of Green Gables novels ; 8)  J PB M
All too quickly life changes - the war is on. Jem and Walter enlist for service. The girls work with the Red Cross and Junior Reds and Rilla takes in a war baby, "Jims." As soon as Shirley is old enough he too enlists in the forces.  After four years of war life the Blythe household will never be the same.

Morpurgo, Michael. Private Peaceful.  Y FIC Morpurgo
When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his childhood love, Molly, and himself.

Morpurgo, Michael. War Horse. Y FIC Morpurgo
Joey the horse recalls his experiences growing up on an English farm, his struggle for survival as a cavalry horse during World War I, and his reunion with his beloved master.

Myers, Anna.  Fire in the Hills. Y FIC Myers
After her mother's death, sixteen-year-old Hallie faces changes in her life in the hills of eastern Oklahoma in 1918, as she takes over caring for her family and begins thinking about life as a woman.

Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front.  YPB R // (Adult) Fic Remarque
Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches.

Rostkowski, Margaret I.  After the Dancing Days. Y FIC Rostkowski
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.

Schur, Maxine. Sacred Shadows. Y FIC Schur
When her German hometown becomes part of Poland after World War I, Lena, a young German Jew, struggles to come to terms with the anti-semitism and anti-German hatred that seems to be growing around her.

Skurzynski, Gloria. Goodbye, Billy Radish. J FIC Skurzynski
In 1917, as the United States enters World War I, ten-year-old Hank sees change all around him in his western Pennsylvania steel mill town and feels his older Ukrainian friend Billy drifting apart from him.

Slade, Arthur G. Megiddo's shadow. Y Fic Slade
After the death of his beloved older brother Hector in World War I, sixteen-year-old Edward leaves the family farm in Canada to enlist in Hector's batallion, where he attempts to come to terms with what has happened.

Voigt, Cynthia. Tree by Leaf.  YPB V
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.
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