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Book Reviews of When Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of Simone Spencer--New York City to the Western Front, 1917 (Dear America)

When Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of Simone Spencer--New York City to the Western Front, 1917 (Dear America)
When Christmas Comes Again The World War I Diary of Simone SpencerNew York City to the Western Front 1917 - Dear America
Author: Beth Seidel Levine
ISBN-13: 9780439439824
ISBN-10: 0439439825
Publication Date: 11/1/2002
Pages: 172
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Rating:
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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4.1 stars, based on 11 ratings
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Book Type: Hardcover
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LynniePennie avatar reviewed When Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of Simone Spencer--New York City to the Western Front, 1917 (Dear America) on + 169 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
This book is a fictionalized account of a journal from Simone Spencer, an eighteen year old girl. She starts journaling around the start of WWI. She joins up with the Signal Corps and ends up on the front lines. I couldn't put the book down.

This book is listed for 9-12 grade reading level, but, I rather enjoyed it. Anyone who is interested in history of WWI from the eyes of a girl coming of age or if you'd like to read of the unsung heroines of WWI this is a good one.
reviewed When Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of Simone Spencer--New York City to the Western Front, 1917 (Dear America) on + 3584 more book reviews
This is a beautiful book and story. Simone Spencer sees the beginning of America in World WAR 1 and hopes that her life will not change. But it does her brother joins the army and she joins the women's Signal Corps because she speaks English and French. She meets the love of her life in France and is told that he is dead, just to find him later in a Veterans Hospital in New York.The characters are fiction, but the historical details are true. This is a great book.I could not put it down until I finished it. Simone is full of energy and kindness.