Prisoner of war
Title
:
Prisoner of war
Personal Author EPSB
:
Michael P., Spradlin
Summary
:
Fifteen-year-old Henry Forrest lies about his age and enlists in the Marines to escape from his abusive father, but when he is immediately sent to the Philippines he finds himself in the middle of the Japanese invasion--and as he grows up he will have to endure the Bataan Death March, overcrowded prisons, and the Japanese factory in Tokyo where he is eventually sent as slave labor.
Year Published
:
2017
Physical Description
:
263 pages ; 22 cm
Subject
:
Survival -- Fiction.
Forced labor -- Japan -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese -- Fiction.
Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942 -- Fiction.
Historical fiction. -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
Philippines -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945 -- Fiction.
Tokyo (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1944-1945 -- Fiction.
Summary
:
Fifteen-year-old Henry Forrest lies about his age and enlists in the Marines to escape from his abusive father, but when he is immediately sent to the Philippines he finds himself in the middle of the Japanese invasion--and as he grows up he will have to endure the Bataan Death March, overcrowded prisons, and the Japanese factory in Tokyo where he is eventually sent as slave labor.
ISBN
:
9780545857833
9781338181197
Publisher
:
New York : Scholastic Press, 2017.
©2017
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| Kate Chegwin | FIC SPR | Book | 30574000625895 | Checked out |