Page 3 - The Peach Pit Parade - A World War I Story

For Momma, who always held down the fort In memory of my grandfather, who served in WWI

—Shana —Margeaux

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in-Publication Data: Names: Keller, Shana, 1977- author. | Lucas, Margeaux, illustrator. Title: The Peach Pit Parade / Shana Keller ; illustrator, Margeaux Lucas. | Other titles: Tales of young
Americans series. Description: Ann Arbor : Sleeping Bear Press, [2022] | Series: Tales of young Americans | Audience: Ages 6-10. | Summary: Polly misses her father, a soldier fighting in
France during World War I, and at home everything is rationed; Polly wants to do her part to help, so she and her friends organize a parade to collect peach pits which are used in the
manufacture of gas masks. Identifiers: LCCN 2021037580 | ISBN 9781534111387 (hardcover) Subjects: LCSH: World War, 1914-1918—United States—Juvenile fiction. | World War, 1914-1918—
Chemical warfare—Juvenile fiction. | Gas masks—Juvenile fiction. | Peach—Juvenile fiction. | Parades—Juvenile fiction. | CYAC: World War, 1914-1918—United States—Fiction. | LCGFT: Historical
fiction. Classification: LCC PZ7.1.K4179 Pe 2022 | DDC 813.6 [Fic]—dc23 | LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021037580 | All photos courtesy of the National Archives and Records
Administration: front end sheet, peach pits at carbon plant, ID No: 26423986; page 36, Red Cross nurses with peach pits, ID No: 31481800; page 36, American gas mask, ID No: 26424034; page
37, 15th Regiment Infantry New York National Guard, ID No: 533488; back end sheet, storage of peach pits, ID No: 26424418
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