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Title: A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor by Harry Mazer ISBN: 0-689-84160-4 Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.32 (28 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A pretty gripping adventure for younger readers
Comment: Adam Pelko is a typical Navy "junior," moving from place to place following his father's ship. He arrives in Hawaii in late 1941, less than a month before the Pearl Harbor attack, and has barely settled in and made friends before the Japanese attack erupts on December 7.
Author Harry Mazer has done a good job, not just with the general action of the story, but also in creating a realistic portrayal of a Navy home, with a father intent on maintaining a "ship-shape" family and running his home like an extension of his ship. This creates more than a little tension in Adam's life, and Mazer describes this well too. Some of the action sequences surrounding the attack seemed a little contrived to me -- could all of that really have happened to one kid? -- but they definitely strike me as a potentially exciting read for this book's target audience. The ambiguity with which the book ends surprised me, but it would certainly make a good jumping-off point for discussions with parents or teachers.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Boy of War
Comment: Hello and thank you for reading my book review. The book is called "A Boy At War". This book is about a boy who witnesses the attacks on Pearl Harbor. This book was written by Harry Mazer. The boys dad worked on the S.S Arizona.
I would recommend this book to people war stories and history. I liked this book because it had all sorts of information on Pearl Harbor I never knew about.
I hated this book because it had a lot of stuff about the kid and not Pearl Harbor. I would rate this book a ten out of ten because it was so awesome. Before I tell you the whole story ill let you read it and I bet you'll like it.
Rating: 3
Summary: the boy who fought the war
Comment: This book is about a boy named Adam. His father is a sailor in the war and does not like Adam having friends that have Japanese parents. Adam is new at his school and is only friend Davi has Japanese parents. One day they are fishing and Japanese planes start to bomb pearl harbor and they just stand there watching for a few minutes then a plane comes and shots at them.Alex gets hit but he lives his other friend Martin gets a stick cut threw him and Davi gets beatup.They all live thow except Adams father.
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Title: The Last Mission (Laurel-Leaf Historical Fiction) by Harry Mazer ISBN: 0440947979 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 15 February, 1981 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: Soldier Boys by Dean Hughes, Kim McGillivray ISBN: 0689860218 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Under a War-Torn Sky by Laura Elliott ISBN: 0786817534 Publisher: General Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Soldier X by Don L. Wulffson, Don Wulffson ISBN: 0142500739 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Good Fight : How World War II Was Won by Stephen E. Ambrose ISBN: 0689843615 Publisher: Atheneum Books Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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