Slap Your Sides (13 page)
Authors: M. E. Kerr
The Wrides will be back with Wride Palace, where you'll be able to skate, bowl, dance, and enjoy yourselves, you and your civilian and servicemen husbands, boyfriends, fathersâ¦and I'm not forgetting there were some service
women
, too. Come to Wride Palace, ladies,
and have a drink on them!
Thanks for a wonderful war, listeners. I wish you peace, as my daughter Darie would say: I will never, ever forget you, ever!
Here she is, folks, for the last time.
If our bombs stopped the killing,
clap your hands!
If V-J Day was thrilling,
clap your hands,
If you're glad we won the war,
glad they won't be back for more,
Slap your sides,
Thank you, Wrides,
Clap your hands.
I never saw Daria again.
M. E. KERR
is a winner of the American Library Association's Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the
2000 ALAN
award from the National Council of Teachers of English. She lives in East Hampton, New York, and remembers clearly the hometown boy who chose not to fight when all the other young men, including her brother, were marching off to war. Her web site is: www.mekerr.com
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WHAT BECAME OF HER
2001 Books for the Teen Age (New York Public Library)
BLOOD ON THE FOREHEAD: WHAT I KNOW ABOUT WRITING
1999 Books for the Teen Age (New York Public Library)
“HELLO,” I LIED
1998 Books for the Teen Age (New York Public Library)
DELIVER US FROM EVIE
1995 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA)
1995 Recommended Books for Reluctant Young Adult Readers (ALA)
1995 Fanfare Honor List (
The Horn Book
)
1995 Books for the Teen Age (New York Public Library)
1994
School Library Journal
Best Books of the Year
1994
Booklist
Books for Youth Editors' Choices
1994 Best Books Honor (Michigan Library Association)
LINGER
1994 Books for the Teen Age (New York Public Library)
FELL DOWN
1991
Booklist
Books for Youth Editors' Choices
1992 Books for the Teen Age (New York Public Library)
FELL BACK
1990 Edgar Allan Poe Award Finalist (Mystery Writers of America)
1990 Books for the Teen Age (New York Public Library)
FELL
1987 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA)
1987
Booklist
Books for Youth Editors' Choice
1988 Books for the Teen Age (New York Public Library)
NIGHT KITES
1991 California Young Reader Medal
Best of the Best Books (YA) 1966â1986 (ALA)
1987 Recommended Books for Reluctant Young Adult Readers (ALA)
Booklist
's Best of the '80s
LITTLE LITTLE
1981
School Library Journal
Best Books of the Year
1981 Golden Kite Award (SCBWI)
1982 Books for the Teen Age (New York Public Library)
GENTLEHANDS
Best of the Best Books (YA) 1966â1992 (ALA)
1978
School Library Journal
Best Books of the Year 1978 Christopher Award
1978 Outstanding Children's Books of the Year (
The New York Times
)
1979 Books for the Teen Age (New York Public Library)
IF I LOVE YOU, AM I TRAPPED FOREVER?
1973 Outstanding Children's Books of the Year (
The New York Times
)
1973 Child Study Association's Children's Book of the Year
1973
Book World
's Children's Spring Book Festival Honor Book
DINKY HOCKER SHOOTS SMACK!
Best of the Best Books (YA) 1970â1983 (ALA)
1972 Notable Children's Books (ALA)
1972
School Library Journal
Best Books of the Year Best Children's Books of 1972 (Library of Congress)
SLAP YOUR SIDES
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