“No,” I say, “I can’t. Besides, why should I?”
And in her most teacherlike voice, she answers, “Howie, don’t you know? The war is over.”
And she’s gone.
And look at me—I’m sixteen, for cheese sake!—and it still makes me want to cry.
Know what I’m saying?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
AVI is the author of more than sixty books, including CRISPIN: The Cross of Lead, a Newbery Medal winner, and CRISPIN: At the Edge of the World. His other acclaimed titles include THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF CHARLOTTE DOYLE and NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, both Newbery Honor Books, and most recently THE SEER OF SHADOWS. He lives with his family in Colorado. Visit Avi at www.avi-writer.com.
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BOOKS BY AVI
THE BARN
BEYOND THE WESTERN SEA, BOOK I: THE ESCAPE FROM HOME
BEYOND THE WESTERN SEA, BOOK II: LORD KIRKLE’S MONEY
BLUE HERON
ENCOUNTER AT EASTON
THE MAN WHO WAS POE
NIGHT JOURNEYS
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
A PLACE CALLED UGLY
PUNCH WITH JUDY
ROMEO AND JULIET—TOGETHER (AND ALIVE!) AT LAST
SOMETHING UPSTAIRS
SOMETIMES I THINK I HEAR MY NAME
S.O.R. LOSERS
TALES FROM DIMWOOD FOREST
Ragweed
Poppy
Poppy and Rye
Ereth’s Birthday
TOM, BABETTE & SIMON
THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF CHARLOTTE DOYLE
“WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN, ANYWAY?”
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Cover art © 2001 by Patrick Faricy
Cover © 2003 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc.
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Dates throughout are the dates that headlines appeared in newspapers, not the dates that events occurred.
DON’T YOU KNOW THERE’S A WAR ON? Copyright © 2001 by Avi. The author gratefully acknowledges John Dunning’s On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998) as the source of quotes here and here. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Avi, date.
Don’t you know there’s a war on? / Avi
p.cm.
Summary: In wartime Brooklyn in 1943, eleven-year-old Howie Crispers mounts a campaign to save his favorite teacher from being fired.
ISBN 0-380-97863-6 — ISBN 0-06-029214-8 (lib. bdg.)
EPub Edition © February 2016 ISBN 9780062453921
1. World War, 1939–1945—United States—Juvenile fiction. [1. World War, 1939–1945—United States—Fiction. 2. Teacher-student relationships—Fiction. 3. Schools—Fiction. 4. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.A953 Do 2001 00-046102
[Fic]—dc21 CIP
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