Little, Jean 1932-
Brothers Far from Home : the World War I Diary of Eliza Bates / Jean Little. - 1st ed. - Markham, ON : Scholastic Canada, 2003. - 235 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm. - Dear Canada .
"In 1916, in Uxbridge, Ontario, twelve-year-old Eliza, a Presbyterian minister's daughter, chronicles her family's experiences after her two brothers leave for Europe to fight in the war. Sunday, January 7, 1916. War is confusing. One minute you are excited. The flags are flying and the march music makes you stride out. You can feel your eyes sparkle and your arms swing to the thumping of the drums or the drone of the bagpipes. (Father says the right word is "skril" but I am not so sure and this is my journal.) Then you hear about the wounded men and you see the lists of missing and dead. I cannot understand how it can all be a part of the same thing. Why were Hugo and Jack in such a hurry to go, as if it were all a huge adventure, when it might end so terribly? Is it the flags flying and the band music and the uniforms? God could not let anything terrible happen to Hugo or Jack or Rufus." (Book Cover)
9780439969000 (hbk)
World War, 1914-1918--Canada--Fiction.
Brothers and sisters--Fiction.
Families--Ontario--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.
Uxbridge (Ont. : Township)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Ontario--History--20th century--Fiction.
Brothers Far from Home : the World War I Diary of Eliza Bates / Jean Little. - 1st ed. - Markham, ON : Scholastic Canada, 2003. - 235 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm. - Dear Canada .
"In 1916, in Uxbridge, Ontario, twelve-year-old Eliza, a Presbyterian minister's daughter, chronicles her family's experiences after her two brothers leave for Europe to fight in the war. Sunday, January 7, 1916. War is confusing. One minute you are excited. The flags are flying and the march music makes you stride out. You can feel your eyes sparkle and your arms swing to the thumping of the drums or the drone of the bagpipes. (Father says the right word is "skril" but I am not so sure and this is my journal.) Then you hear about the wounded men and you see the lists of missing and dead. I cannot understand how it can all be a part of the same thing. Why were Hugo and Jack in such a hurry to go, as if it were all a huge adventure, when it might end so terribly? Is it the flags flying and the band music and the uniforms? God could not let anything terrible happen to Hugo or Jack or Rufus." (Book Cover)
9780439969000 (hbk)
World War, 1914-1918--Canada--Fiction.
Brothers and sisters--Fiction.
Families--Ontario--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.
Uxbridge (Ont. : Township)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Ontario--History--20th century--Fiction.