Theme: Vietnam War

Dogtag Summer

By Book Importer | Published: September 26, 2011

Twelve-year-old Tracy–or Tuyet–has always felt different. The villagers in Vietnam called her con-lai, or “half-breed,” because her father was an American GI. And she doesn’t fit in with her adoptive family in California, either. But when Tracy and a friend discover a soldier’s dogtag hidden among her father’s things, it sets her past and her [...]

Descriptors: Asia, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Viet Nam » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Grandfather’s Story Cloth

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

Chersheng’s grandfather is beginning to forget things: little things like turning off the water faucet and big things like Chersheng’s name. Sometimes he even forgets that he is in America now. Chersheng feels sad and helpless when he learns that Grandfather has Alzheimer’s Disease, but then Chersheng’s mother presents him with a story cloth stitched [...]

Descriptors: Lao People's Democratic Republic, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , » 1 Comment

1968

By auraenid | Published: October 1, 2009

1968, the year America grew up from racial and gender equality fights to the struggle against the draft and the Vietnam war, in 1968 Americans asked questions and fought for their rights.  Now, 30 years later, we look back on that seminal year–from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assasination to the Columbia University riots to [...]

Descriptors: Czech Republic, France, International, Mexico, Nonfiction, United States of America, Viet Nam, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

Stolen Voices: Young People’s War Diaries, from World War I to Iraq

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

Zlata Filipovic’s diary of her harrowing war experiences in the Balkans, published in 1993, made her a globally recognized spokesperson for children affected by military conflict. In Stolen Voices, she and co-editor Melanie Challenger have gathered fifteen diaries of young people coping with war, from World War I to the struggle in Iraq that continues [...]

Descriptors: Biography, International, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Running Man

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

For a long time, fourteen-year-old Joseph has wondered about old Tom Leyton, his reclusive next-door neighbor. Gossip and rumors suggest that something terrible happened to Tom in the past. Then Joseph is asked to draw Tom for a school art project, and that means Joseph has the opportunity to uncover the truth about this man [...]

Descriptors: Australia, Mystery, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

Tell Me Lies

By Rebecca Ballenger | Published: October 29, 2008

It is 1969, and Stephen meets up with old friend Astrid and her lover Spencer, and stays with them in the hippy household “The Hollies.” Peace and love are tangible: until his passionate attraction for another girl in the household goes sour. He drifts into the radical arts scene and far-left politics, and finally into [...]

Descriptors: England (UK), Historical Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , » Leave a comment

One Belfast Boy

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Describes the life of Liam Leatham, a young Catholic boy, and his family as he prepares for a boxing match that he sees as the first step out of violence-plagued Belfast.

Descriptors: Europe, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Nonfiction, Northern Ireland (UK) » Other Themes: , » Comments closed