title: I Had Seen Castles
text: # I Had Seen Castles
  
  I Had Seen Castles is a 1993 novella for young adults by the American writer and Newbery Medalist Cynthia Rylant.
  
  ## Plot summary
  
  It is a story about a young American named John Dante who enthusiastically enlists in 1942 but soon comes to understand the horrors of war.
  
  It can be deemed as an anti-war novel due to Rylants way of describing the War and its consequences.
  
  ## Reviews
  
  "The volume is deceptively slim; this finely drawn novel projects emotional truths to rival those of Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front."
  
  