World War One

A selection of fiction, picture books, biographies and autobiographies on World War One with a dominant New Zealand perspective - available in our school library
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My Brother's War by David Hill. It's New Zealand, 1914, and while William eagerly enlists for the army, his younger brother, Edmund, is a conscientious objector and refuses to fight. While William trains to be a soldier, Edmund is arrested. Both brothers will end up on the bloody battlefields of France, but their journeys there are very different. And what they experience at the front line will challenge the beliefs that led them there.
Line of Fire by Barroux. One winter's morning, French illustrator Barroux was walking down a street in Paris when he made an extraordinary discovery: the diary of a soldier in the First World War. Barroux rescued the diary from the rubbish heap, took the diary back to his studio and subsequently illustrated the soldier's words. The result is a striking graphic novel adaptation of the soldier's moving and powerful account of war.

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Evie's War by Anna Mackenzie. Edwardian England: for Evie, newly arrived from New Zealand, it proves a genteel world of tea parties, tennis and snobbery – but also of the burgeoning suffragette movement and whispers of change. Drawn into the unimaginable conflict and terror of WWI by a commitment to service and to friendship, Evie moves ever further from the protected world of her childhood.

Anna Mackenzie& & War& - a poignant novel set in the turbulent years of WWI

Poppy by Mary Hooper. Poppy is young, beautiful and clever – and working as a parlourmaid in the de Vere family’s country house. Society, it seems, has already carved out her destiny. But Poppy’s life is about to be thrown dramatically off course. The first reason is love – with someone forbidden, who could never, ever marry a girl like her. The second reason is war.

Poppy

Poppy by Mary Hooper (F HOO) Poppy, is a parlourmaid in a grand country house; But her life is about to be thrown dramatically off course by the war.

Loyal Creatures by Morris Gleitzman. Like many of his mates from the bush, Frank Ballantyne is keen to join the grand adventure and do his bit. So Frank ups his age and volunteers with his horse Daisy ... and his dad. In the deserts of Egypt and Palestine he experiences all the adventure he ever wanted, and a few things he wasn't expecting. Heartbreak, love and the chance to make the most important choice of his life.

Like many of his mates from the bush, Frank Ballantyne is keen to join the grand adventure and do his bit. Specially as a chest full of medals might impress the currently unimpressed parents of his childhood sweetheart. So Frank ups his age and volunte

Time and Time Again by Ben Elton. It’s the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming. He knows this because, for him, that century is already history. Somehow he must change that history. He must prevent the war. A war that will begin with a single bullet. But can a single bullet truly corrupt an entire…

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A Soldier's Friend by Megan Rix. SAMMY is a football crazy rescue puppy. MOUSER is a fearless black and white tomcat. Together they make an unlikely pair that won't be parted, not even by the First World War. As the war rages in Europe, Londoners are sending brave animals to help the soldiers - and Mouser and Sammy are soon on their way to the trenches. But on the muddy front line, under fire and constantly in danger, will their friendship be enough to save them so they can return home…
The Donkey Who Carried the Wounded by Jackie French. The famous story of Simpson and his donkey - a true Anzac legend Most Australians know of Simpson and his donkey, who became heroes at Gallipoli, even among the Turkish forces. Few know where the donkey came from, or what happened to him after World War I. Or that another man carried on rescuing the wounded with the donkey after Simpson died.

The Donkey Who Carried the Wounded

The Donkey Who Carried the Wounded: The Famous Story of Simpson and His Donkey - a True Anzac Legend (Animal Stars)

War Horse by Michael Morpurgo. In 1914, Joey, a young farm horse, is sold to the army and thrust into the midst of the war on the Western Front. With his officer, he charges towards the enemy, witnessing the horror of the frontline. But even in the desolation of the trenches, Joey's courage touches the soldiers around him.

In Joey, a young farm horse, is sold to the army and thrust into the midst of the war on the Western Front. With his officer, he charg.

The Red Poppy by David Hill / Fifi Colston. Five minutes ... Two minutes .... Young soldier Jim McLeod waits in the trenches of World War I for the order to attack the enemy. With him are his friends and Nipper, the messenger dog. When they charge across no-man’s land Jim is shot ... and finds himself face to face with an enemy soldier.

Young soldier Jim McLeod waits in the trenches of World War I for the order to attack the enemy. With him are his friends, and Nipper, the messenger dog. When they charge across no-man's-land, Jim is shot . and finds himself face to face with an enemy

Listen To The Moon by Michael Morpurgo. May, 1915. Alfie and his fisherman father find a girl on an uninhabited island in the Scillies – injured, thirsty, lost… and with absolutely no memory of who she is, or how she came to be there. She can say only one word: Lucy. Where has she come from? Is she a mermaid, the victim of a German U-boat, or even – as some islanders suggest – a German spy…? WW1 is raging, suspicion and fear are growing, and Alfie and Lucy are ever more under threat.

On an uninhabited island in the Scillies, Alfie and his father find an injured girl - alone, and with no memory of who she is. She can speak only one word: Lucy. Is she a mermaid, a ghost? Or could she even be a German spy?

A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Illustrated Poetry of the First World War. Some of the most beautiful poetry ever written has come from the horror of the trenches. Represented here are poems dashed off in the full awfulness of the battlefield, as well as those honed with the terrible benefit of hindsight.

A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Illustrated Poetry of the First World War, selected by Fiona Waters

The Great War. A powerful collection of stories by bestselling authors, each inspired by a different object from the First World War. From a soldier's writing case to the nose of a Zeppelin bomb, each object illuminates an aspect of life during the war, and each story reminds us of the millions of individual lives that were changed forever by the four years of fighting.

The Great War is an anthology of fictional stories from eleven internationally-acclaimed, award-winning authors.

Nice Day For A War by Chris Slane and Matt Elliott. Cyril Elliott was a boy when he enlisted to fight in World War 1, lured by the idea of exciting travel and adventure. What he found was quite different. But misery and terror were made easier by Kiwi humour, mates, and writing a diary.

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1917: Machines of War / Brian Falkner. 1917. World War One. 17 year old NZ Bob Sunday, in the Royal Flying Corps, finds himself flying against the great German air aces, including the infamous Red Baron.

1917: Machines of War / Brian Falkner. 1917. World War One. 17 year old NZ Bob Sunday, in the Royal Flying Corps, finds himself flying against the great German air aces, including the infamous Red Baron.

Only Remembered by Michael Morpurgo. 2014 will mark one hundred years since the outbreak of the First World War. To mark the date, this beautiful anthology will collect favourite extracts, images and poems from some of the UK’s leading cultural, political and literary figures. Poems, short stories, personal letters, newspaper articles, scripts, photographs and paintings are just some of the elements of this astonishing collection, with cover and artwork by renowned illustrator, Ian Beck.

2014 will mark one hundred years since the outbreak of the First World War. To mark the date, this beautiful anthology will collect favourite extracts, images and poems from some of the UK’s leading cultural, political and literary figures.

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