Fall 2024

One Year, One Night (2nd Edition)

  • Interest Level: Grade 6 - Grade 12
  • Reading Level: Grade 6

It’s never easy to go back, especially when the memories you’ve been running from suddenly resurface.

When Annie returns to her home village after a long absence, she rediscovers the diary she kept the year she turned 16, the year that changed her life. We follow Annie as she navigates a blossoming love story with a handsome soldier and her growing affection for an evacuee child. With tender and amusing moments, this story—set in a small English village during World War II—explores love, resilience, and loss with a fresh new voice.

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Interest Level Grade 6 - Grade 12
Reading Level Grade 6
Genre Young Adult
Category SEL: A Self-Awareness, SEL: C Social Awareness, SEL: D Relationship Skills, SEL: E Responsible Decision-Making, Social Emotional Learning
Copyright 2025
Publisher Red Chair Press
Imprint One Elm Books
Language English
Number of Pages 152
Publication Date 2024-08-06
Text Type Fiction—Historical
BISACS YAF024100, YAF052030, YAF024050
Dewey 813.6
Dimensions 5.25 x 7.75
Lexile 1000
Features Original artwork, Teaching Guides, and eSource

Author: S. L. Roman

S.L. Roman is a pseudonym for Laura Meloni and Sarah Onions. With surnames of Meloni and Onions, they thought they sounded more like a vegetable market, so they came up with S.L. Roman (in homage to Laura’s native city, Rome). Both have been teachers at the high school level.

Illustrator: Kevin Hopgood

Kevin Hopgood is a children’s illustrator and comic book artist. Past clients include Marvel comics, Oxford University Press, Barrington Stoke, and Franklin Watts.

Lerner eSource™ offers free digital teaching and learning resources, including Common Core State Standards (CCSS) teaching guides. These guides, created by classroom teachers, offer short lessons and writing exercises that give students specific instruction and practice using Common Core skills and strategies. Lerner eSource also provides additional resources including online activities, downloadable/printable graphic organizers, and additional educational materials that would also support Common Core instruction. Download, share, pin, print, and save as many of these free resources as you like!

One Year, One Night (2nd Edition)

It’s never easy to go back, especially when the memories you’ve been running from suddenly resurface. When Annie returns to her home village after a long absence, she rediscovers the diary she kept the year she turned 16, the year that changed her… View available downloads →