Forget Me Not
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2005
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780006395492
- Publish Date
- Aug 2005
- List Price
- $12.99
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Description
Roberta "Bobby" Harrison is over the moon now thatGermany has surrendered. Her favourite brother, Alex, is back from overseas.Rick Anderson wants to kiss her. Her hospital volunteering has convinced her shehas talent as a nurse?although her medical diagnoses aren’t alwaysappreciated. Life should be wonderful for 15-year-old Bobby, but the wounds ofwar don’t heal easily. Alex is withdrawn, his spirit scarred by battle, Bobby’ssister may have to join her husband in Australia and her best friend has starteddating Bobby’s brother Brian.... Why is everything changing? How did lifebecome so confusing?
Written in diary form, this poignant and often funny sequel to Love-Lies-Bleedingwill be a hit with ’tweens and teens everywhere.
About the author
Barbara Haworth-Attard is the acclaimed author of 13 children’s books, including Theories of Relativity, winner of two teen choice awards—the Snow Willow Award (Saskatchewan) and the Stellar Book Award (BC)—and finalist for the Governor General’s Award. Her other popular titles include A Is For Angst, Forget- Me-Not, Irish Chain and Flying Geese. Haworth-Attard lives with her family in London, Ontario. Visit her online at www.barbarahaworthattard.com.
Librarian Reviews
Forget-Me-Not
Believable adolescent issues, excerpts from Lawrence Haworth’s letters written from the Front, and articles from the London Free Press, London, Ontario, are skillfully interwoven throughout Forget-Me-Not, the fictional diary of Roberta (Bobby) Harrison, written by Barbara Haworth-Attard. Humorously written, this poignant story and snippets of primary documents connects the reader with feelings and thoughts of Canadians as they “re-wrote reality” at the end of the conflict.Reinventing life is the complex societal task facing Canadians when allied victory is declared at the end of World War II. Street victory celebrations give way to the reality of integrating physically and mentally wounded soldiers and former prisoners of war into society. Hasty wartime marriages tear young women and grandchildren from their families and homeland to begin life in a foreign country with a husband and father, who is little more than a stranger. Military factories, the mainstay of wartime employment, are closing; unemployment looms for both the returning soldiers and civilians alike, while adolescents like Bobby are busy with the normal process of “reinventing” themselves to an adult world.
Source: The Canadian Children's Bookcentre. Winter 2006. Vol.29 No. 1.
Forget-Me-Not
World War II is over, but its wounds don’t heal easily for 15-yearold Bobby. Written in diary form, here is the poignant, yet humorous sequel to the highly acclaimed Love- Lies-Bleeding.Source: The Canadian Children’s Book Centre. Canadian Children’s Book News. 2006.
