W. Ross Macdonald School Library

Shattered :

Shattered : stories of children and war [contracted braille] / Stories of children and war edited by Jennifer Armstrong. - Los Angeles, Calif. : Braille Institute, c2001. - 2 v. of contracted braille.

Contracted braille.

Second day / Ibtisam Barakat -- Shattered / Marilyn Singer -- Bad day for baseball / Graham Salisbury -- I'll see you when this war is over / M.E. Kerr -- Golpe de Estado / Dian Curtis Regan -- Snap, crackle, pop / Lois Metzger -- Things happen / Lisa Rowe Fraustino -- Faizabad harvest 1980 / Suzanne Fisher Staples -- Sounds of Thunder / Joseph Bruchac -- Witness for peace / Jennifer Armstrong -- War is swell / David Lubar -- Hope / Gloria D. Miklowitz.

Author Jennifer Armstrong has collected twelve stories which explore the complex ways young people are affected by war. The settings vary widely: Staples writes of an Afghan girl whose family and village are slowly and relentlessly destroyed by Soviets; Bruchac looks at Native American soldiers fighting with the Union Army in the Civil War; Singer shows us the troubled children of Vietnam; Kerr reveals war's effects on the family of a conscientious objector; Barakat describes her own flight from Palestine during the Six-Day War.

Grades 7-10.


Transcribed from: New York : Knopf, 2002.

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War stories.
War--Fiction.
Short stories.

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