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Fallen angels / Walter Dean Myers.
Summary
Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967. This is the story of the horrors he sees and experiences while on active duty in Vietnam for one year. Graphically violent this novel depicts the reality of war without glorifying or romanticizing it.
Keywords
1961-1975, African Americans, Fiction, Identity, Vietnamese Conflict
Reading Levels
Ages 15 - 18 / Grades 10 - 12
Awards
- Caldecott Medal, 1989
- School Library Journal Best Books for Children and Young Adults, 1988
- Coretta Scott King Author Award, 1989
Publication History
- New York : Scholastic, 1988. 309. ISBN 0590409425