num_pages: 40
description: Vietnam.A young American soldier waits for his enemy, rifle in hand, finger on the trigger. He is afraid to move and yet afraid not to move. Gunshots crackle in the still air. The soldier fires blindly into the distant trees at an unseen enemy. He crouches and waits -- heart pounding, tense and trembling, biting back tears. When will it all be over?Walter Dean Myers joined the army on his seventeeth birthday, at the onset of American involvement in Vietnam, but it was the death of his brother in 1968 that forever changed his mind about war.In a gripping and powerful story-poem, the award-winning author takes readers into the heart and mind of a young soldier in an alien land who comes face-to-face with the enemy. Strikingly illustrated with evocative and emotionally wrenching collages by Caldecott Honor artist Ann Grifalconi, this unforgettable portrait captures one American G.L's haunting experience.
language: English
title: Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam
titlecomplete: Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam
genres: Historical, Soldiers, Childrens, Picture Books, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Poetry, Cultural, Juvenile
ratings_count: 268
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Jane Addams Children's Book Award
category: Picture Book, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Picture Books for Older Readers
publisher: HarperCollins