Copyright © 2002 by Geert Spillebeen
First American edition 2005
Originally published in Belgium in 2002 by Averbode
English translation by Terese Edelstein copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Spillebeen, Geert. [Kipling's Keuze English] Kipling's choice / written by Geert Spillebeen ; translated by Terese Edelstein. p. cm.
Summary: In 1915, mortally wounded in Loos, France, eighteen-year-old John Kipling, son of writer Rudyard Kipling, remembers his boyhood and the events leading to what is to be his first and last World War I battle.
HC ISBN 0-618-43124-1 PA ISBN 0-618-80035-2
1. Kipling, John, 1897–1915—Juvenile fiction. 2. Kipling, Rudyard, 1865–1936—Juvenile fiction. [1. Kipling, John, 1897–1915—Fiction. 2. Kipling, Rudyard, 1865–1936—Fiction 3. Death—Fiction. 4. Loos, Battle of, Loos-en-Gohelle, France, 1915—Fiction. 5. World War, 1914–1918—France—Fiction. 6. Fathers and sons—Fiction. 7. War—Fiction.] I. Edelstein, Terese. II. Title. PZ7.S7549Ki 2005 [Fic]—dc22
2004020856
HC ISBN-13: 978-0618-43124-3 PA ISBN-13 978-0-618-80035-3
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