Pictures, 1918 - Hardcover

Ingold, Jeanette

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ISBN 10: 0152018093 ISBN 13: 9780152018092

Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books, 1998

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Asia McKinna comes of age in a rural Texas town during World War I. She struggles to understand the frailty of her grandmother, the strain of the war, her intensifying feelings for her friend Nick Grissom, and the uneasiness caused by the mysterious fires plaguing her town. Through her growing passion for photography, she hopes eventually to gain perspective on the times--and on her place in the world.

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From the Author:

PICTURES, 1918 began with my wanting to write about photography, which is something I got involved with in third grade, when my mom and dad gave me a box camera and a kit for processing film and printing pictures. I set my novel in a much earlier time period, though, partly because some World War I-era photos had fueled my imagination.

To research PICTURES, 1918, I pored over old insurance maps, phone books, and county histories, and I drove the back roads of Texas in my effort to write the town of Dust Crossing the way it would have been, if it had been. Of course, setting a book during the First Work War also meant delving into the political and social history of the time. That was largely library work, and my absolute best resources were the microfilmed, small-town newspapers of the day. They gave me, in their headlines and personals columns, grocery ads and calls for patriotic action, the parameters of my characters' lives.

From the Inside Flap:

Asia stares at the camera in the drugstore window. It is so beautiful. So much more than her dad's Brownie camera. It's an Autographic. Black and gold. She's never wanted a camera before, but this Autographic--it seems as though the pictures this camera could take might really make a difference.

If she'd had this camera she'd have a picture of Straw Bit, her rabbit, who had died in the fire. She'd be able to look again at the shadowy figure she'd seen running away from the flames. And she could get a picture of her friend Nick before he goes off to college--or to war.

Right then, looking at the Autographic for the first time, Asia decides that somehow, someway, she'll make the money to buy that camera for herself....

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