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Award-winning author Avi pens a stark, unflinching tale of ordinary boys living during WW1 as tensions - and desperations - mount among them. Twelve-year-old Patryk knows little of the world beyond his tiny Polish village - until the Germans drop a bomb on the schoolhouse and the Great War comes crashing in.

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Award-winning author Avi pens a stark, unflinching tale of ordinary boys living during WW1 as tensions - and desperations - mount among them. Twelve-year-old Patryk has never left his Polish village and doesn´t know much about the outside world. Then one August, with the clatter-clatter of an aeroplane, the Great War explodes into his village. As the Germans and Russians fight for control, Patryk and his friends begin their own battle to find the best military button. It starts as a dare, but soon the boys find

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AVI (Pseudonym für Edmund I. Wortis) wurde 1937 in New York geboren und lebt heute als Kinder- und Jugendbuchautor in Brooklyn. Er hat damit angefangen, für junge Leser zu schreiben, als er eigene Kinder bekam. Seine Bücher garantieren spannende Unterhaltung.

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