cover image After the Dancing Days

After the Dancing Days

Margaret I. Rostkowski. HarperCollins, $5.99 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-06-440248-4

Annie learns to stand up to her mother in the days following the end of The Great War, through her friendship with a veteran and in the discovery of the truth about her uncle's heroism; this is a gracefully written story with a clear-sighted view of the ironies of war. Ages 10-14. (September)