LORD OF THE NUTCRACKER MEN

Iain Lawrence, . . Dell/Laurel-Leaf, $5.99 (212pp) ISBN 978-0-440-41812-2

A boy watches his kindly toymaker father turn against the German shopkeepers and neighbors in the family's London community, then travel to France to fight in the Great War in what PW called, in a starred review, "a thoughtful and thought-provoking novel." Ages 10-up. (May)

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