Front Lines by Michael Grant

Front Lines by Michael Grant

1942 World War I

The most terrible war in human historyMillions are dead; millions more are still to dieThe Nazis rampage across Europe and eye far-off America

The green, untested American army is going up against the greatest fighting force ever assembled--the armed forces of Nazi Germany

But something has changedA court decision makes females subject to the draft and eligible for serviceSo in this World War I, women and girls fight, too

As the fate of the world hangs in the balance, three girls sign up to fightRio Richlin, Frangie Marr, and Rainy Schulterman are average girls, girls with dreams and aspirations, at the start of their lives, at the start of their lovesEach has her own reasons for volunteeringNot one expects to see actual combatNot one expects to be on the front lines

Rio, Frangie, and Rainy will play their parts in the war to defeat evil and save the future of the human raceThey will fear and they will rage; they will suffer and they will inflict suffering; they will hate and they will loveThey will fight the greatest war the world has ever known

New York Times bestselling author Michael Grant has created a masterful alternate history of World War I in Front Lines, the first volume in a groundbreaking series

Michael Grant is a master of twists that not only tear at his readers' consciences, they hold a mirror up to our here and now and insist we consider what might otherwise beFront Lines is a masterpiece of speculative story crafting--Andrew Smith, Michael LPrintz Honor-Winning Author of Grasshopper Jungle

What if American women had fought alongside men in World War I? Michael Grant gives us a magnificent alternate history that feels so real and right and true it seems impossible that it wasn'tEvery one of these fictional soldiers has wrapped herself around my heart--Elizabeth Wein, Michael LPrintz Honor Winner And New York Times Bestselling Author of Code Name Verity

Front Lines does what great epics are meant to do: tells us the human side of history with honesty, wit, and clarityJust because it didn't happen this way doesn't mean it isn't true--CAlexander London, Author of Proxy and The Dog Tags and Tides Of War Series

--Elizabeth Wein, author of Code Name Verity, a New York Times Bestselling novel.