num_pages: 240
description: Spencer Morgan and Dieter Hedrick are on opposite sides of the war and fighting for the same thing.At the age of fifteen, Dieter's blind devotion gets him promoted from Hitler Youth into the German army. Dieter's determined to prove his allegiance and bravery at all costs.Spence, just sixteen, drops out of his Utah high school to begin training as a paratrooper. He's seen how boys who weren't much in high school can come home heroes, and Spence wants to prove to his friends and family that he really can be something.Their worst fear was that the war would end too soon -- that they wouldn't get the chance to prove themselves. But when they finally see the action they were hoping for, it's like nothing they could have ever imagined.
language: English
title: Soldier Boys
titlecomplete: Soldier Boys
genres: Coming Of Age, Historical, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Military Fiction, War, Action, Fiction, Holocaust, World War II
ratings_count: 2523
places: Germany, Utah
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Rhode Island Teen Book Award
publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers