Lines of Courage

Jennifer A. Nielsen, author of A Night Divided and Rescue, artfully weaves together the stories of five kids living through World War I who each hold the key to each other’s futures... if they are lucky -- and brave -- enough to find each other.<br/><br/>World War I stretches its cruel fingers across Europe, where five kids feel war's scarcity and challenges in different ways.<br/><br/>Felix, from Austria-Hungary, wants the courage to fight against Jewish deportations before his own family can be taken.<br/><br/>Kara, from Britain, wants to be a Red Cross nurse.<br/><br/>Juliette, of France, hopes her family can remain knitted together in the face of the war's longest battle.<br/><br/>Elsa, from Germany, hopes her homing pigeon might one day bring her a friend among the chaos.<br/><br/>And Dimitri, of Russia, wants only to survive the front, where he's been sent with no weapon.<br/><br/>None of them will find exactly what they want. But the winds of fate may cross their paths to give each of them just what they need.