Description: "Everyone else is going," said Tom to Emily when their uncle was gone. "That's not a good reason," said Emily.
Emily knows her big brother, Tom, wants to leave Hillside Farm and go overseas to the war, but Emily doesn't want him to go. The Soldier's Gift is a moving story of one family's courage and endurance during World War I, the terrible losses at Gallipoli, and a time that changed Australia forever.