The Gazette: From Detroit To The Trenches

Three young people, a world war, and the newspaper that brings them together. This YA historical fiction novel is a coming of age story that chronicles the lives of fifteen-year-old Bob Stevens, his friend Maggie Robinson and eighteen year old Davy McLeod. It is set during the turmoil of the Great War. Between 1915 and 1918 in Detroit, Michigan, the real Bob Stevens wrote a newspaper called The Gazette. His newspapers are the inspiration for my novel. Bob wants to be a war correspondent. For practice, he writes a neighborhood newspaper. He only hopes the war will last long enough for him to get to Europe. Smart, independent Maggie understands the sacrifices war requires, she has two brothers fighting in France. Davy, joins the British forces to escape his job in a Scottish mine. He receives Bob's newspapers in letters from his grandmother.In the spring of 1918, the War Department recruits Bob to hide coded messages about US troop deployments in his newspapers. In France, Davy's dreams of courage and adventure fade away in the mud, stench and blood of war. He is trained as a sniper and discovers he has the keen eye and steady hand of a killer. But, his nightmares prove he lacks a killer's heart. The newspapers he receives from his grandmother connect him to the world outside the trenches, and when he finds a code to which only he has the key, he realizes that killing may not be his only contribution.

• | Author: Catherine Paonessa
• | Publisher: Seavoy Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 06, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 490 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 0692894721
• | ISBN-13: 9780692894729