Slap Your Sides
by M. E. Kerr
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Life in their Pennsylvania hometown changes for Jubal Shoemaker and his family when his older brother witnesses to his Quaker beliefs by becoming a conscientious objector during World War II.Tags
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While everyone else is marching off to war or supporting the war effort, Jubal's brother Bud, a Quaker and a pacifist, chooses to be a 4E conscientious objector. He goes off to Civilian Public Service camp in Colorado to perform jobs without pay. His choice affects the way the community treats his family. The circumstances bring up the question for Jubal's family and their fellow Quakers: is war ever justifiable?
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Marijane Meaker (born May 27, 1927) is an American novelist and short story writer in several genres using different pen names. Using her own observations of lesbians in the 1950s and 1960s, she wrote a series of nonfiction books as Ann Aldrich from 1955 to 1972. In 1972 she switched genres and pen names once more to begin writing for young show more adults, and became quite successful as M.E. Kerr, producing over 20 novels and winning multiple awards including the American Library Association's lifetime award for young-adult literature, the ALA Margaret Edwards Award. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- People/Characters
- Bud Shoemaker; Jubal Shoemaker; Daria
- Important places
- Sweet Creek, Pennsylvania, USA
- Important events
- World War II
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- Fiction and Literature, Teen, Children's Books, Young Adult
- DDC/MDS
- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
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- PZ7 .K46825 .S — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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