![]() ![]() ![]() He is an excellent writer, and very popular with both teens and teachers. A coming-of-age tale for young adults set in the trenches of the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, this is the story of Perry, a Harlem teenager who volunteers for the service when his dream of. Since then we have bought all this author's work. ![]() It was right up both their alleys, and they needed no persuasion to get back to it every evening. His father and him took turns reading it aloud, substituting the word 'blank' for the swear words. I gave this book to my son when he was 12. There's action, there's social history, and there's 'the human consequences of battle': death, maiming, depression, heroism and cowardice. We follow him through his tour of duty in Vietnam and, apart from sex which Myers manages to side step, we get everything an adult novel of the same genre would include. The story centers around Richie Perry, who joins the army to get away from home. The language is all used in context and is, in my view, relevant and acceptable. I presume this is because of the bad language. I am told it turns up on all the 'Best of' lists of kids' books, but also all the 'Worst' lists. ![]()
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