by Sue Saunders · Heinemann · tapa dura · ISBN 9780435233457
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«White Poppies» is the play by Sue Saunders, published by Heinemann in hardcover (96 pages, in English).
Tom Headley enlists underage in the Great War and goes to the front as a tunneler. After a tragedy, he is blamed for the deaths of his comrades, and his family and girlfriend are ostracized. Eighty years later, a schoolgirl investigates her great-grandparents for a Poppy Day project and discovers truths that repair a historical wrong.
Part of the Heinemann Plays for 11-14 collection, a series of plays for young people, published in 2009.
A play aimed at readers aged 11 to 14 and classroom work, with possibilities for curricular links to the First World War.
