My Brother's War

by David Hill

Overview

• Winner of the Junior Fiction Award and Children’s Choice for Children and Young Adults 2013 (New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2013).
• Winner of The Lianza Librarians’ Choice Award, 2013. 

It’s New Zealand, 1914, and the biggest war the world has known has just broken out in Europe. William eagerly enlists for the army but his younger brother, Edmund, is a conscientious objector and refuses to fight. While William trains to be a soldier, Edmund is arrested. Both brothers will end up on the bloody battlefields of France, but their journeys there are very different. And what they experience at the front line will challenge the beliefs that led them there.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781906582630
Publisher:	Aurora Metro Books
Publication date:	09/08/2015
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	10 - 18 Years

About the Author

David Hill spent most of his childhood and teenage years in Napier. He studied at the Victoria University of Wellington and became a high school teacher, teaching both in New Zealand and the UK. He became a full-time writer in 1982 and is one of New Zealand's most highly regarded authors for children and young people. David's books have been published internationally and his short stories and plays for young people have been broadcast worldwide. He has won numerous awards for his writing in New Zealand and overseas and was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2004.

Editorial Reviews

“…this is an important and highly readable book.” 

From the Publisher

"It is a searing read but the book speaks with great authority."

The School Librarian - Clare Morpurgo

“Real, raw … and fabulous all at the same time.” 

online review - Adele Broadbent