conscientious objectors

Examines the major issues teens should consider before they decide to join the armed forces, highlighting the pros and cons of military services in all branches of the United States armed forces.

Recounts the author's refusal to serve in the armed forces in World War I and the price he paid for that noncompliance.

Laurie Odell is sent to a rural veterans' hospital in England after being injured in World War II, and befriends Andrew, a conscientious objector serving as an orderly, and the two begin a romance that is eventually threatened by a mentor from Laurie's school days.

Bud and Jubal Shoemaker's family are Quakers in the small town of Sweet Creek, Pennsylvania, during World War Two whose opposition to fighting creates division within the community when Bud declares himself a conscientious objector.

At the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia countryside with his aunt and the uncle he considers a traitor because he refused to take part in the war.