Heroes don't run : a novel of the Pacific War

Title
Heroes don't run : a novel of the Pacific War

Personal Author EPSB
Harry. Mazer

Summary
To honor his father who died during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, seventeen year old Adam eagerly enlists in the Marines in 1944, survives boot camp, and faces combat on the tiny island of Okinawa.

Other Title
Heroes do not run
 
Subtitle on cover: Novel of the Pacific war

Year Published
2005

Physical Description
113 p. ; 19 cm.

Note
Sequel to: A boy at war.

Reading Grade level
5.6.

Age Interest level
Gr. 5-9

Grade Interest level
5-9.

Program Information
ACCELERATED READER-RED 3

Subject
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan -- Okinawa Island -- Fiction.

Geographic Term
Okinawa Island (Japan) -- Fiction.

Genre
Historical fiction.
 
War stories.

Summary
To honor his father who died during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, seventeen year old Adam eagerly enlists in the Marines in 1944, survives boot camp, and faces combat on the tiny island of Okinawa.

ISBN
9780439793919

Publisher
New York : Scholastic, c2005.


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George P. NicholsonYA MAZBook31004000152855Teen