Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers

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Copyright © 2019 by Keely Hutton

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First hardcover edition 2019

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Names: Hutton, Keely, author.

Title: Secret soldiers / Keely Hutton.

Description: First edition. | New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2019. | Summary: In 1917, Thomas, a thirteen-year-old coal miner seeking his missing brother, James, joins the clay kickers, who tunnel beneath the battlefields of the Western Front as they learn to be men.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018039223 | ISBN 9780374309039 (hardcover)

Subjects: | CYAC: Coming of age—Fiction. | Friendship—Fiction. | Soldiers—Fiction. | Miners—Fiction. | World War, 1914–1918—Campaigns—Western Front—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.H913 Sec 2019 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018039223

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