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Purple Heart
Contributor(s): McCormick, Patricia (Author)

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ISBN: 0061730920     ISBN-13: 9780061730924
Publisher: Balzer & Bray/Harperteen
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2011
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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
Age Level: 14-UP
Grade Level: 9-UP
Lexile Measure: 760(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" L (0.38 lbs) 224 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Middle East
- Chronological Period - 21st Century
Features: Ikids, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 131874
Reading Level: 5.1   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 6.0
 
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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.


 
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