| Purple Heart Contributor(s): McCormick, Patricia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061730904 ISBN-13: 9780061730900 Publisher: Balzer & Bray/Harperteen OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2009 Annotation: When Private Matt Duffy wakes up in an army hospital, he's haunted by an image of a young Iraqi boy as a bullet hits his chest. Matt can't shake the feeling that he is somehow involved in the boy's death, but because of his own head injury, he struggles to put all the pieces together. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Death, Grief, Bereavement - Young Adult Fiction | Historical - Military & Wars - Young Adult Fiction | People & Places - Middle East |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2009001757 |
| Lexile Measure: 760 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.04" W x 8.44" (0.67 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 131874 Reading Level: 5.1 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 6.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When Private Matt Duffy wakes up in an army hospital in Iraq, he's honored with a Purple Heart. But he doesn't feel like a hero. There's a memory that haunts him: an image of a young Iraqi boy as a bullet hits his chest. Matt can't shake the feeling that he was somehow involved in his death. But because of a head injury he sustained just moments after the boy was shot, Matt can't quite put all the pieces together. Eventually Matt is sent back into combat with his squad--Justin, Wolf, and Charlene--the soldiers who have become his family during his time in Iraq. He just wants to go back to being the soldier he once was. But he sees potential threats everywhere and lives in fear of not being able to pull the trigger when the time comes. In combat there is no black-and-white, and Matt soon discovers that the notion of who is guilty is very complicated indeed. National Book Award Finalist Patricia McCormick has written a visceral and compelling portrait of life in a war zone, where loyalty is valued above all, and death is terrifyingly commonplace. |
Contributor Bio(s): McCormick, Patricia: - Patricia McCormick is a former journalist and a two-time National Book Award finalist whose books include Cut, Sold, Never Fall Down, The Plot to Kill Hitler, Sergeant Reckless: The True Story of the Little Horse Who Became a Hero, and the young readers edition of I Am Malala. Patricia lives in New York. You can visit her online at www.pattymccormick.com. |