num_pages: 187
description: A stunning novel of the First World WarThey've gone now, and I'm alone at last. I have the whole night ahead of me, and I won't waste a single moment of it... I want tonight to be long, as long as my life...As young Thomas Peaceful looks back over his childhood from the battlefields of the First World War, his memories are full of family life deep in the countryside.But the clock is ticking, and every moment Tommo spends remembering how things used to be, means another moment closer to something which will change his life forever.
language: English
title: Private Peaceful
titlecomplete: Private Peaceful
characters: Charlie Peaceful, Thomas "Tommo" Peaceful, Molly
genres: Historical, Family, War, Novels, School, Young Adult, Childrens, Historical Fiction, Fiction, World War I
ratings_count: 27214
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Blue Peter Book Award
category: Book of the Year and Book I Couldn't Put Down, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Young Adult, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Carnegie Medal
publisher: HarperCollinsChildren's Books