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.
9781848890565 (pbk.) : £5.99
Child soldiers--Ireland--Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Juvenile--Fiction.
War stories.
Young adult fiction.
Teenage Fiction.
Adventure.
839.3137
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.
9781848890565 (pbk.) : £5.99
Child soldiers--Ireland--Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Juvenile--Fiction.
War stories.
Young adult fiction.
Teenage Fiction.
Adventure.
839.3137