La guerra de los botones [Paperback]

Patryk tiene doce años y no ha visto mucho mundo más allá de su pueblo, en Polonia, ocupado por los rusos. Allí nunca pasa nada..., hasta el día que los alemanes lanzan una bomba a la escuela y estalla la Gran Guerra. Mientras el control del pueblo pasa de manos de una nación a otra y los soldados extranjeros llegan y se marchan, uno de los siete amigos del grupo, el insensible y competitivo Jurek, propone un peligroso desafío: el que robe el botón más valioso de un uniforme militar se convertirá en el rey. La nueva y esperada novela del autor de Ciudad de huérfanos y Las verdaderas confesiones de Charlotte Doyle.

Patryk is twelve years old and doesn’t know much about the world beyond his Russian-occupied hometown in Poland. Nothing ever happens there—until the Germans bomb their school and the Great War begins. While control of the village is handed off from one nation to another and foreign soldiers arrive and march through, one of the seven friends in the group offers a dangerous challenge. The reckless and competitive Jurek announces that whoever steals the most valuable button from a military uniform will become king.

Aviis an American author of eighty books for children and young adults. He earned a 2003 Newbery Medal for his novelCrispin: The Cross of Lead, one forThe True Confessions of Charlotte Doylein 1993, and another forNothing But the Truthin 1992. His bookIron Thunderwas selected as the 2009 Beacon of Freedom Award winner by Williamsburg Regional Library and Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. In 2016, he published a collection of short stories entitledThe Most Important Thing: Stories about Sons, Fathers, and Grandfathers.

Avi is a Newberry Award-winning author of books for young adults.