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The button war : a tale of the Great War / Avi.

The button war : a tale of the Great War / Avi.
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ISBN 9780763690533 (hardback)
Name Avi, 1937- author.
Title The button war : a tale of the Great War / Avi.
Edition First edition.
Published Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2018.
©2018.
Description 229 pages ; 21 cm.
Summary Patryk and Jurek are as much friends as rivals in the small Russian-occupied Polish village where they live. When, in August 1914, Patryk finds an old button on the forest floor, Jurek becomes wildly jealous. Not long after, World War I comes to Poland, bringing one invading army after another to the village. Jurek devises an exciting dare among the seven boys in their pack: whoever steals the best military button will be Button King. The boys agree. The competition escalates from stealing uniform buttons on a wash line to looting the bodies of dead soldiers to setting up an ambush. Leading the charge is Jurek, who will do anything to be Button King. It's only Patryk who tries to stop Jurek's increasingly dangerous game before it leads to deadly consequences.
Target audience note For middle to upper primary school age.
Reading Program Note Premier's Reading Challenge 7-9.
Subjects World War, 1914-1918 -- Poland -- Juvenile fiction
Boys -- Poland -- Juvenile fiction
Competition (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction
Buttons -- Juvenile fiction
Youth fiction
Premier's Reading Challenge 7-9
Genre Historical fiction
War fiction
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