After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.

When unlikeable Elsie dies in the influenza pandemic of 1918, she comes back to haunt Annie to make sure she'll be Annie's best--and only--friend soon.

When the British Royal Navy grew desperate to protect their ship from German U-Boat attacks, they created Dazzle ships in order to confuse the enemy of their location and destination.

Explains the causes, outcomes, and repercussions of the war that was supposed to end all wars.

American soldier J. Robert Conroy befriended a stray dog with a stumpy tail while training to fight overseas in WWI. They bonded so closely that Conroy smuggled him to Europe, where Stubby accompanied Conroy's regiment on the Western Front, lending both his superior olfactory senses and amiable temperament to the war effort.

Anne's youngest, Rilla, is about to turn 15, and all she can think of is her first dance at the Four Winds lighthouse. But her dreams are shattered with the announcement of war, for Canada gets involved in WWI that very night. Her brothers go off to fight, and Rilla brings home a war orphan in a soup tureen. The whole community is caught up in the agony of those terrible 4 years, but funny things still happen to lighten the days.