num_pages: 208
description: From the Children's Laureate of England, a stunning novel of the First World War, a boy who is on its front lines, and a childhood remembered."They'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 . . ." For young Private Peaceful, looking back over his childhood while he is on night watch in the battlefields of the First World War, his memories are full of family life deep in the countryside: his mother, Charlie, Big Joe, and Molly, the love of his life. Too young to be enlisted, Thomas has followed his brother to war and now, every moment he spends thinking about his life, means another moment closer to danger.
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: 27217
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: Scholastic Press