McCormick, Patricia.
Purple heart / by Patricia McCormick. - 1st ed. - New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, c2009. - 198 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
Grades 7 up. Lexile: 760.
A Junior Library Guild selection.
9780061730917 (lib. bdg.) 9780061730900 (trade bdg.)
2009001757
Iraq War, 2003--Juvenile fiction.
Soldiers--Juvenile fiction.
Brain damage--Juvenile fiction.
Hospitals--Juvenile fiction.
Memory--Juvenile fiction.
Street children--Juvenile fiction.
Purple heart / by Patricia McCormick. - 1st ed. - New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, c2009. - 198 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
Grades 7 up. Lexile: 760.
A Junior Library Guild selection.
9780061730917 (lib. bdg.) 9780061730900 (trade bdg.)
2009001757
Iraq War, 2003--Juvenile fiction.
Soldiers--Juvenile fiction.
Brain damage--Juvenile fiction.
Hospitals--Juvenile fiction.
Memory--Juvenile fiction.
Street children--Juvenile fiction.