Back to Bataan
By: Jerome Charyn.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 101
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Juvenile fiction.; World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Fiction.; Criminals -- Fiction.; Schools -- Fiction.; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Description: Eleven-year-old Jack Dalton, a sensitive student at a private school in New York City in 1943, wants to go to Battan as a soldier just like his dead father, but instead he proves his bravery in an encounter with a mysterious hobo.