description: Thirteen year old Annie waits at the train station for her father, a doctor. It is 1919, the Great War is over, and the wounded are returning to a small town near Kansas City from the battlefields of France. When her father decides to continue his work at the veterans' hospital, Annie finds she is drawn to the place for reasons she doesn't understand.
language: English
title: After the Dancing Days
titlecomplete: After the Dancing Days
genres: Fiction, Contemporary, World War I, Young Adult, Historical, Childrens, War, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade, School
ratings_count: 1072
places: Kansas
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: IRA Children’s and Young Adult’s Book Award
category: Young Adult Category, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Middle School/Junior High, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children's Literature
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH