Purple Heart
By: by Patricia McCormick.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Balzer & Bray; Balzer + Bray
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780061730900; 9780061730917
Subjects: Iraq War, 2003- -- Juvenile fiction; Iraq War, 2003- -- Fiction; Soldiers -- Fiction; Brain damage -- Fiction; Hospitals -- Fiction; Memory -- Fiction; Street children -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: While recuperating in a Baghdad hospital from a traumatic brain injury sustained during the Iraq War, eighteen-year-old soldier Matt Duffy struggles to recall what happened to him and how it relates to his ten-year-old friend, Ali.