Age 14 /

Spillebeen, Geert.

Age 14 / by Geert Spillebeen ; translated by Terese Edelstein. - Cork : Collins Press, 2010. - 220 p. ; 20 cm.

This translation originally published: Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2009.

It is 1913 and 12-year-old Patrick Condon wants to escape his unexciting life in Ireland. So he hatches a plan. Not wanting to wait until he is old enough to join the army, Patrick lies and says he is 17-years-old and that his name is John Condon. Assuming the identity of his older brother, Patrick enlists.


Translated from the Dutch.

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Child soldiers--Ireland--Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Juvenile--Fiction.


War stories.
Young adult fiction.
Teenage Fiction.
Adventure.

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