TY - BOOK AU - McKay, Sharon E., TI - Charlie Wilcox SN - 9780613298421 U1 - F MCKA PY - 2002///, c2000 CY - Toronto PB - Penguin Canada KW - Great Britain KW - Army KW - Newfoundland Regiment, 1st KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Somme, 1st Battle of the, France, 1916 KW - Fiction KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Hospitals KW - Children with disabilities KW - Clubfoot KW - First loves KW - Newfoundland and Labrador KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Authors, Canadian KW - Canadian fiction KW - FICTION / Historical / Canada KW - bisacsh N1 - Ages 12 and up N2 - Charlie Wilcox, a Newfoundlander, is interested in one thing only: going to sea, just like his father and uncles. He'll make his family proud. His parents have different plans for him, however: they want him to go to university. Humiliated, Charlie sets out to prove he can measure up to the men in his family, and stows away on a sealing ship. It's only when they are far out to sea, and he is discovered, that he realizes he's on a troopship bound for France! ER -