Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: The Diary of Molly MacKenzie Flaherty is a historical fiction book written by Ellen Emerson White. It is the twenty-seventh book in Scholastic's Dear America. It was published in June 2002. White also wrote a companion book, The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty, for My Name Is America.
Dedication[]
- "In honor of all the members of the fire service particularly the heroes of the FDNY."
Book description[]
- "January 2, 1968
My New Year's resolution is to do something....
I'm just not sure how to do it, or even what to do. If I wanted to protest, I could go downtown and stand around Boston Common, holding signs with hippies, any day of the week. But even if I could get around the fact that it would be betraying Patrick, I don't think that really accomplishes anything. I've seen lots of demonstrators—especially over in Harvard Square—and I know I'm not supposed to say this, but it seems like a big waste of time to me.... Besides, the government knows that lots of people are against the war, and they just keep asking for more troops, anyway."
Plot[]
Epilogue[]
Historical Note[]
Characters[]
- Main article: List of Where Have All the Flowers Gone? characters
Author[]
- Main article: Ellen Emerson White
Ellen Emerson White is a writer of children's and young adult fiction. She is known for her The President's Daughter series. White is the author of Voyage on the Great Titanic in Dear America, Kaiulani: The People's Princess in The Royal Diaries, and The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty in My Name Is America. For Where Have All the Flowers Gone?, White remembered some events of the Vietnam War clearly since she was a young child at the time. In an interview, she confessed that the September 11 attacks effected the tone of the book more than she would have liked.[2]
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- Main article: The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty
Where Have All the Flowers Gone? is the only Dear America book to have a companion title, namely The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty in My Name Is America. It is told from the point-of-view of Molly's older brother Patrick. The author completed Patrick's book in August 2001 before Where Have All the Flowers Gone?.[2] Books books were published at the same time.
Notes[]
- The portrait on the cover is a detail of a photograph of Karen Petrie Medsger provided by Laurie Petrie Roche. The background is a detail of a 1970 photograph by Jeff Albertson depicting a demonstration on Boston Common against the Kent State shootings.[3][4]
References[]
- ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Where-Have-All-Flowers-Gone/dp/0439148898/
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/interview-ellen-emerson-white-about-where-have-all-flowers-gone/
- ↑ http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/muph057-b003-sl399-i006
- ↑ Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Ellen Emerson White, page 188
See also[]
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External links[]
- Where Have All the Flowers Gone? at Scholastic (archive)
- Interview with Ellen Emerson White about Where Have All the Flowers Gone? at Scholastic (archive)
- Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Discussion Guide at Scholastic (archive)
- Where Have All the Flowers Gone? at Teaching Books