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A rose for the Anzac boys

by Jackie French

Margery "Midge" MacPherson is at a ladies' boarding school with very little idea of what is happening on the front lines, and worried about her brother Tim, who lied about his age to join the army. When she receives news of his death, she believes it to be a mistake, and with two of her friends, she makes her way to Europe to find him. Midge is catapulted from her quiet boarding school life into the harsh reality of war-torn Europe, and the people she meets and the deeds she performs help to shape her world in a way she could never have imagined.

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?