Casualties of war / Chris Lynch.
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TextSeries: Lynch, Chris, Vietnam ; bk. 4.Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Scholastic Press, 2013.Edition: 1st edDescription: 182 p. ; 22 cmISBN: - 0545270235 (hc)
- 0545270243 (pb)
- 9780545270236 (hc)
- 9780545270243 (pb)
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Lynch Chr | 4 | Available | 33111007074848 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"The best Vietnam War novels yet for this age range." - Kirkus
Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck are best friends for life. So when one of the teens is drafted into the Vietnam War, the others sign up, too. Of the four, it's Beck that has the most to lose. He's the smart one of the bunch, and he could be - SHOULD be - going to college. His parents certainly think so. But he has a pact to honor, and so Beck enlists in the US Air Force. As their tours of duty near completion and the war itself spirals further out of control, the four best friends are at last on a collision course. Will they all survive long enough to be reunited?
One of four friends who have volunteered to fight in the Vietnam War, the intellectual Beck is in the Air Force, where he is part of a crew spraying Agent Orange, but the destruction of the jungle and his isolation from the fighting going on below is starting to effect him.