War stories
Title
:
War stories
Personal Author EPSB
:
Gordon, Korman
Summary
:
Twelve-year-old Trevor Firestone loves playing war-based video games and he idolizes his great-grandfather Jacob who came home from World War II a celebrated hero; now ninety-three Jacob wants to retrace his journey in memory and reality and return to the small French village that his unit liberated, and Trevor is going with him--but not everyone in the town want Jacob to come, and Trevor is going to learn an important lesson: real war is not a video game, and valor and heroism can be very murky concepts.
Year Published
:
2020
Physical Description
:
231 pages ; 22 cm
Subject
:
Great-grandfathers -- Fiction.
Veterans -- Fiction.
Heroes -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Fiction.
Secrecy -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction.
Genre
:
War fiction
Summary
:
Twelve-year-old Trevor Firestone loves playing war-based video games and he idolizes his great-grandfather Jacob who came home from World War II a celebrated hero; now ninety-three Jacob wants to retrace his journey in memory and reality and return to the small French village that his unit liberated, and Trevor is going with him--but not everyone in the town want Jacob to come, and Trevor is going to learn an important lesson: real war is not a video game, and valor and heroism can be very murky concepts.
ISBN
:
9781338290202
9781338290226
9781338730234
Publisher
:
New York : Scholastic Press, 2020.
©2020
| Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
|---|
| Elmwood | F KOR | Book | 30204000213738 | Fiction |