Kipling's Choice (Bccb Blue Ribbon Fiction Books (Awards)) - Hardcover

Spillebeen, Geert; Edelstein, Terese

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0618431241 ISBN 13: 9780618431243

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005

Synopsis

HardCover. Pub Date: May. 2005 Pages: 147 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children On the Verge of World War I. Movements in author Rudyard Kipling's SON. John. Like HIS father before him. WantED to fight for his COUNTRY. But when John's military application was threatened. Rudyard took matters into his own hands. applying all his influence to allow his son to fight in the Great War. And the teenager who had lived his life in comfort and whose greatest concern had been pleasing his father now faced a much greater challenge-staying alive in his first battle.

About this title

Product Description:

In 1915, mortally wounded in Loos, France, eighteen-year-old John Kipling, son of writer Rudyard Kipling, remembers his boyhood and the events leading to what is to be his first and last World War I battle.

About the Author:

Geert Spillebeen lives in Izegem, Belgium, where he is a journalist and radio presenter. This is his first novel published in the United States.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0618431241
• ISBN 13: 9780618431243
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 147