War stories

Titre
War stories

Gordon, Korman

Sommaire
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.

Date de publication comme intervalle
2020

Description matérielle
231 pages ; 22 cm

Terme de vedette-matière
Great-grandfathers -- Fiction.
 
Veterans -- Fiction.
 
Heroes -- Fiction.
 
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Fiction.
 
Secrecy -- Fiction.

Terme géographique
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction.

Genre
War fiction

Résumé
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.

Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
9781338290202
 
9781338290226
 
9781338730234

Informations de publication
New York : Scholastic Press, 2020.
 
©2020


BibliothèqueNuméro de rayonType de documentCode à barres du documentStatut
McLeodF KORBook30200000209098Fiction