Twelve-year-old Trevor Firestone loves playing war-based video games and he idolizes his great-grandfather Jacob who came home from World War II a celebrated hero; now ninety-three Jacob wants to retrace his journey in memory and reality and return to the small French village that his unit liberated, and Trevor is going with him–but not everyone in the town want Jacob to come, and Trevor is going to learn an important lesson: real war is not a video game, and valor and heroism can be very murky concepts.
- ISBN: 9781338290202
- Published: 2020 , Scholastic Inc.
- Themes: boys and men, Effects of war, Soldiers and the military, World War II
- Descriptors: France, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic Fiction
- No. of pages: 234