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  • The Button War

  • A Tale of the Great War
  • By: Avi
  • Narrated by: Will Ropp
  • Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (26 ratings)

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The Button War

By: Avi
Narrated by: Will Ropp
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Publisher's summary

Renowned, award-winning author Avi pens a stark, unflinching tale of ordinary boys living in wartime as tensions - and desperations - mount among them.

Twelve-year-old Patryk knows little of the world beyond his tiny Polish village; the Russians have occupied the land for as long as anyone can remember, but otherwise life is unremarkable. Patryk and his friends entertain themselves by coming up with dares - some more harmful than others - until the Germans drop a bomb on the schoolhouse and the Great War comes crashing in. As control of the village falls from one nation to another, Jurek, the ringleader of these friends, devises the best dare yet: whichever boy steals the finest military button will be king. But as sneaking buttons from uniforms hanging to dry progresses to looting the bodies of dead soldiers - and as Jurek's obsession with being king escalates - Patryk begins to wonder whether their "button war" is still just a game. When devastation reaches their doorstep, the lines between the button war and the real war blur, especially for the increasingly callous Jurek. Master of historical fiction Avi delivers a fierce account of the boys of one war-torn village who are determined to prove themselves with a simple dare that spins disastrously out of control.

©2018 Avi Wortis Inc., original book published by Candlewick Press (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
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the bad ending names mispronounced

story is ok a little disturbing I don't like how they pronounce the names the book is pretty accurate with what happened back then

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My 6th Grade class loved this book!

Graphic descriptions, but great realistic fiction. The narrator was very good. We Loved this book!

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