num_pages: 224
description: Is War A Thing To Be Forgotten?That's what Annie's mother would like to do. She wants to forget the pain and heartache and to keep it away from Annie, too. But Annie cannot forget the death of her favorite uncle, who was killed in France. She cannot forget Andrew, the angry young veteran she meets at the hospital where her father works. Can Annie find the courage to help Andrew? And will she ever be able to make sense of a war that took so much from so many?Drawn to the Kansas hospital where her father cares for wounded World War One veterans, Annie meets Andrew, a disfigured young soldier. As Annie helps Andrew slowly adjust to his wounds, she also faces devastating truths about war and the complex world of adulthood. A girl on the brink of womanhood comes to terms with the brutal aftereffects of war in an absorbing novel.
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: HarperCollins