num_pages: 304
description: A powerful new novel about the heroics and horror of war from Walter Dean Myers whose bestselling book FALLEN ANGELS celebrates its 20th anniversary.Operation Iraqi Freedom that's the code name. But the young men and women in the military's Civil Affairs Battalion have a simpler name for WAR.In this new novel Walter Dean Myers looks at a contemporary war with the same power and searing insight he brought to the Vietnam war of his classic FALLEN ANGELS. He creates memorable characters like the book's narrator Birdy a young recruit from Harlem who's questioning why he even enlisted; Marla a blond tough-talking wisecracking gunner; Jonesy a guitar-playing bluesman who just wants to make it back to Georgia and open a club;
language: English
title: Sunrise Over Fallujah
publisher: Scholastic Press