She wants to become a doctor, and trains as an army medic. Frangie Marr: African-American, 18-year-old from Tulsa, Oklahoma.He is enlisted in the Air Corps as a B-17 pilot. Strand Braxton: Rio's love interest, also from Gedwell Falls, California.Jenou Castain: Rio's best friend, white, also from Gedwell Falls, California.Grant has stated that he based her in part on Audie Murphy. Rio Richlin: Main character, white, 17-year-old from Gedwell Falls, California.While they all have wildly different backgrounds and are on seemingly separate paths, fate brings them together. But not everyone believes that women should be on the front lines and they encounter resistance as well as encouragement.įront Lines tracks the girls through their different paths, Rio is literally on the front lines, Frangie is learning to be a medic and Rainy is training to be in an elite intelligence unit.
For the first time they leave behind their homes and families-to go to war. Each has her own reasons for volunteering: Rio fights to honour her dead sister, Rachel Frangie needs money to support her family, as her father has not been able to work since he was injured and Jewish Rainy wants to kill Germans and bring down Hitler. These three girls sign up to fight, each of them with dreams and aspirations. So in Gedwell Falls, California Rio Richlin is deciding whether to enlist, as is Rainy Schulterman in New York City and Frangie Marr in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In the USA, a court decision has made women eligible for service. It is written from the viewpoint of three girls, Rio Richlin, Frangie Marr, and Rainy Schulterman.įront Lines starts out in 1942 and war is raging in Europe, China, Southeast Asia and Northern Africa. Front Lines is a young adult historical novel by the American writer Michael Grant, who is most famous for his dystopian young adult fictional series The Gone Series.
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