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A kind of courage
Record details
- ISBN: 1551435837 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
- ISBN: 9781551435831 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (150 p.) : ill.
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electronic resource - Publisher: Victoria, BC ; Custer, WA : Orca Book Publishers, c2005.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | CatMonthString:january.19 Multi-User. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Cover; Title Page; CIP Page; Prologue, 1910, Hattie; April 1918, Hattie; September 1916, David; July 1918, Hattie; May 1911, David; January 1918, David; August 1918, David; April 1917, David; September 1918, Hattie; September 1918, David; September 1918, Hattie; April 1919, David; May 1919, Hattie; May 1919, David; June 1919, Hattie; |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Summary:
Details the adolescent confusion of Hattie Tamblyn, a young Canadian teenager who lives on a farm with her parents and younger brother Johnny during the First World War. Hattie's elder brother, Will, to whom she is very close, is fighting in France. When her father hires a conscientious objector, David Ross, to help work on the farm, she and her brother, Johnny, feel their father has betrayed Will. As a CO, David is a social pariah called a "conchie", and he is generally despised and considered a coward. Over the next few months, Hattie and David develop a chaste romance. Hattie's confusion develops as she finds herself drawn to the conchie, an act which she considers a betrayal of her brother. She questions the nature of courage, itself, something which once seemed such a simple concept.
