Tucky Jo and Little Heart

Title
Tucky Jo and Little Heart

Personal Author EPSB
Patricia. Polacco

Summary
A fifteen-year-old soldier in World War II meets a sweet young girl in the Philippines who helps him remember what he is fighting for as he helps her and others of her village avoid starvation, and many years later she returns his kindness.

Year Published
2015

Physical Description
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Note
"A Paula Wiseman Book."

Subject
Soldiers -- Fiction.
 
Kindness -- Fiction.
 
World War, 1939-1945 -- Philippines -- Fiction.

Geographic Term
Philippines -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945 -- Fiction.

Summary
A fifteen-year-old soldier in World War II meets a sweet young girl in the Philippines who helps him remember what he is fighting for as he helps her and others of her village avoid starvation, and many years later she returns his kindness.

ISBN
9781481415842

Publisher
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2015.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
A. Blair McPhersonE POLBook31458000095896Picture Books