SHATTERED: Stories of Children and War
, . . Knopf, $15.95 (176pp) ISBN 978-0-375-81112-8
Twelve thought-provoking stories by as many writers cover a wide range of settings and conflicts. Joseph Bruchac, for example, describes a Native American teen's experience fighting for the Union in the Civil War, and Gloria Miklowitz chronicles a Jewish boy's arrival in Palestine shortly after WWII. Not all of the battlefields are literal: one of the most touching entries, "Things Happen" by Lisa Rowe Fraustino, concerns a girl who helps hide a draft dodger during Vietnam. Others are especially timely; in "Faizabad Harvest, 1980" by Suzanne Fisher Staples, an Afghani girl tells about the Soviet destruction of her village. There is no real pattern to the sequencing; readers may find it jarring, which may have been Armstrong's (
Reviewed on: 01/21/2002
Genre: Children's
Library Binding - 176 pages - 978-0-375-91112-5
Mass Market Paperbound - 166 pages - 978-0-440-23765-5
Open Ebook - 95 pages - 978-0-307-43374-9
Prebound-Glued - 166 pages - 978-1-4176-1882-8