Road to War (My Story)

by Valerie Wilding

My Story: Girls, My Story (UK) (1917), My Story

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Its 1917 and the Great War rages in Europe. When Daffy Rowntrees brother goes missing in action she refuses to sit safely in England, and determines to do something to help win the war. Soon she finds herself in the mud and horror of the battlefields of France, driving an ambulance transporting the wounded of the trenches...

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This entire series is a wonderful way to learn history or teach it to adolescents. I find today's generations seem to recall more when they learn through other people (pop songs, celebrity gossip, etc.), so what better way to teach history than through someone else's perspective? Yes, "authentic" diaries would be "better", but would the language really hold the modern student's attention? Did the diary writer know what WOULD be important in the context of history? Probably not.

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Alternate titles
Road to War: A First World War Girl's Diary, 1916-1917
Original publication date
2007
Important places
France
Important events
World War I (1914 | 1918)

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Fiction and Literature, Kids, Children's Books
DDC/MDS
823.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991945-1999
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PZ7 .W6463Language and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres

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English
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