Lines of Courage
Jennifer A. Nielsen
Book summary:
Life for Felix in Austria-Hungary is good, until the Archduke is murdered. Now, war is eminent, and Felix’s father has to go fight. Felix’s life will never be the same. He vows that when he is old enough, he will become a soldier and have revenge on the German’s who took over his city.
Kara and her mother leave their home in England to work on a Red Cross ambulance train, where Kara must decide if she should break rules to save a man’s life. An enemy. An Austro-Hungarian.
Juliette has been separated from her family in the midst of war in France. Now, she is on her own, trying to survive and find her family. With the help of a British girl working with the Red Cross, maybe she can find her family before they are captured by the enemy.
Dimitri is fighting in the trenches among his fellow Russian soldiers. But he doesn’t want to fight, and he is soon captured by the Germans. With the help of a young French girl with a red hat, will he be able to escape the horrors of war?
Elsa, of Germany, is hated for her nation and her father, who is an important German soldier. Can she enlist the help of one of her old friends from Austria-Hungary to save her father, who has been injured by his fellow soldiers?
Can these five young people push past their differences of nationalities to come together as one in the midst of the war to end all wars?
Year published: 2022
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Illustrator: none
Religion/ belief system: one character is Jewish; other than him, no religion
Profanity and violence: death, war & war elements, poisonous gas, mentions shell shock
Drinking, drugs, smoking: none
Romance: none
Book type: fiction
Genre: historical
Thoughts: I love every single one of Jennifer A. Nielsen’s historical fiction books. They are all incredibly written, and this one is no exception. I love how the story is told from the perspective of five different teens during WW1, and I love how each of their stories intertwine! (Sorry if the summary was long! I had to get a little bit of each of the character’s stories in there!😉)