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It's the summer of , and Guy and Sarah Masson have traveled with their parents from Paris to a small resort village on Lake Constance, in Austria. What Guy thinks will be an ordinary vacation is transformed into one of discovery and delight when he and Sarah meet a ten-year-old Austrian boy, Willy Schiller. They swim and race their model sailboats in the lake, fight mock duels as knights through the woods, and play chess in their rooms when it rains, while Guy and Sarah plot how Willy can come back to Paris with them in the fall. The three become inseparable that first summer, and each year thereafter their friendship grows -- until the summer of . Suddenly the world is at war, and these best of friends find themselves on opposing sides.
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Juanita Havill is the author of numerous children’s books including Jamaica's Find, a Reading Rainbow Review Book, IRA-CBC Children’s Choice, and winner of the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer award. Ms. Havill lives in Sonoita, Arizona.
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Gr. 6-9. In 1906, 10-year-old Guy's family leaves Paris to vacation in a small Austrian village, where he befriends a Viennese boy named Willy. Meeting every summer for several years, Guy and his sister, Sarah, grow closer to their friend, though over the years the boys' interests shift from sailing model boats to building a glider to flirting with the village girls. In 1914, war puts an end to the family's vacations, and in 1915, Guy joins the army, painfully aware that Willy may be in the opposite trenches. Havill's narrative flows through the years so quickly and records Guy's, Sarah's, and Willy's stories so matter-of-factly that readers may be taken unawares by the slowly building emotional power of this short novel. The story's extended time frame might hinder the book from finding its audience: a 10-year-old protagonist may put off older readers, and younger ones may not relate to Guy as a shell-shocked soldier in a sanitarium. Still, this spare, thoughtful story does a superb job of personalizing the pain of this brutal, futile war. One of the few novels for young people set during World War I, the book ends with an author's note providing background information as well as lists of books, films, and Internet sites. For other books on the subject, see the "Read-alikes: The War to End All Wars" [BKL N 1 01]. Carolyn Phelan
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- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0688136729
- ISBN 13 9780688136727
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- Edition number1
- Number of pages135
- IllustratorJohnson David
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