Best Selling Books by Leslie W. Bowman

While the adults talk endlessly about the war overseas, Mason fights his own battles at home with a mean bully named Aden. But then Aden surprises Mason with an unexpected act of kindness. Finally, on the night the bells ring-and World War I ends-Mason lays an old enemy to rest. Readers will identify with this timeless story about a boy's coming-of-age.

"This quiet, affecting coming-of-age story... realistically evoke[s] life in another time and place." -The Horn Book

Awards for The Night the Bells Rang:

( An American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists"
( A Child Study Children's Book Committee Children's Book of the Year