War stories

Título
War stories

Gordon, Korman

Resumen
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.

Fecha de publicación como intervalo
2020

Descripción física
231 pages ; 22 cm

Término de la materia
Great-grandfathers -- Fiction.
 
Veterans -- Fiction.
 
Heroes -- Fiction.
 
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Fiction.
 
Secrecy -- Fiction.

Término geográfico
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction.

Género
War fiction

Síntesis
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

Información de publicación
New York : Scholastic Press, 2020.
 
©2020


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