"Charlie and Kate know their yellow lab, Buster, would be a perfect soldier dog. So they enlist Buster in the Coast Guard, where he and his handler work to protect US shores from enemy attacks. Then Charlie and Kate discover a coded Nazi message about a submarine landing that will put German spies on US soil. With hours until the U-boat's arrival can Charlie, Kate, and Buster be the heroes America needs?"--Back cover.
Contains a three-part essay, written in the 1930s, in which the author responds to three separate requests for donations to a women's college building fund, a society to promote the employment of women, and an organization devoted to the prevention of war.
"Told in two voices, seventeen-year-old kamikaze pilot Taro and fifteen-year-old war worker Hana meet in 1945 Japan, he with no future and she, haunted by the past. Includes historical notes and glossary"--Provided by publisher.
"In 1917 Russia, seventeen-year-old Katya joins the first all-female battalion to fight the Germans, but she soon finds that patriotism alone won't help her survive the realities of war"--Provided by publisher.
"As Sefia and Archer watch Kelanna start to crumble to the Guard's will, they will have to choose between their love and joining a war that just might tear them apart"--Provided by publisher.
"A teenage boy stands outside the Calgary bus station, alone, on a frigid night. He has no winter clothes, no identification, and he speaks little English. His name is Hakim, but who is he, and where did he come from?"--Provided by publisher.
A fictionalized biography of eighteen-year-old John Kipling, son of writer Rudyard Kipling, who remembers his boyhood and the events leading up to World War I, as he lies dying on a battlefield in France.
