Three young people, a world war, and the newspaper that brings them together.  The Gazette: From Detroit to the Trenches by Catherine Paonessa is a coming of age story that chronicles the lives of fifteen-year-old Bob Stevens, his friend Maggie Robinson and eighteen-year-old Davy McLeod as they experience the turmoil of the Great War.

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From the trials of war time America to the horror of the trenches, The Gazette: From Detroit to the Trenches transports you to this significant and electrifying time.

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Between 1916 and 1918 in Detroit, Michigan, the real Bob Stevens wrote a neighborhood newspaper.  His newspapers are the inspiration for this novel.