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Captain Rosalie

While her father is at war, five-year-old Rosalie is a captain on her own secret mission. She wears the disguise of a little girl and tracks her progress in a secret notebook. Some evenings, Rosalie's mother reads aloud Father's letters from the front lines, so that Rosalie knows he is thinking of her and looking forward to the end of the war and to finally coming home. But one day a letter comes that her mother doesn't read to her, and Rosalie knows her mission must soon come to an end.
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All quiet on the western front

A graphic novel adaptation that depicts the experiences of a group of young German soldiers fighting and suffering during the last days of World War I.
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The 39 steps

A graphic novel adaptation of John Buchan's novel about Richard Hannay, who is caught up in a dramatic and dangerous race to stop a plot to devastate the British war effort during World War I.
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Los guerrero's del infierno de Harlem

Follows the journey of the 369th Infantry Regiment, the first African American regiment mustered to fight in World War I, from the enlistment lines in Harlem to the training camp at Spartanburg, South Carolina, to the trenches in France, all while facing struggles and discrimination for a chance to fight for America.
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A kind of courage

When a young conscientious objector comes to work on her father's farm in 1916, Hattie learns that courage comes in many forms.
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At battle in World War I

Uses a plot-your-own story format to exploring World War I through the eyes of sailors, pilots, and infantry soldiers on the frontline.
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In the trenches in World War I

An introduction to the history of World War I that discusses the causes of the conflict, the first to involve many different countries from around the world; describes conditions in the trenches; and includes eyewitness accounts, quotations, photographs, and time line.
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Inside fighter planes

Learn how various fighter planes of past and present function.
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The button war

a tale of the Great War
When World War I descends upon a tiny Polish village, seven boys launch their own deadly battle for the right to be crowned king of the land.
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Over the top

the story of a soldier
Jack, a young man in World War I, recalls his happy times with his family in the English countryside and thinks of his situtation as a soldier in the trenches where his best friend has just been killed, as he prepares to go "over the top" in "No Man's Land.".

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