Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross by L. Frank Baum
"Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross" by L. Frank Baum is a young adult novel published in 1915. When war erupts in Europe, three American girls sacrifice comfort to serve as nurses on a converted hospital ship. Confronting military bureaucracies and battlefield horrors, they treat wounded soldiers while grappling with the brutal realities of World War I. Their idealistic mission faces mounting challenges, including a disfigured surgeon haunted by fear, tragedy
on the front lines, and questions about their place in a foreign conflict. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919 |
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| Illustrator | Hall, N. P. |
| Title | Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt_Jane%27s_Nieces_in_the_Red_Cross |
| Credits | E-text prepared by Afra Ullah, Emmy, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 73.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| Subject | War stories |
| Subject | Family -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Red Cross and Red Crescent -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Nurses -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care -- Juvenile fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 16567 |
| Release Date | Aug 21, 2005 |
| Most Recently Updated | Dec 12, 2020 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 478 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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