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Myers, Walter Dean

Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam

40 pp. | HarperCollins | May, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-06-028363-7 $$16.95 | Library ISBN 0-06-028364-5 $$16.89
(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Ann Grifalconi. This is more than an account of how one soldier's perception of a terrible reality is transformed by his recognition of the humanity he shares with his enemy. The fear here is almost palpable, the danger magnified in the imagination because it is anticipated rather than realized. The haunting illustrations and the taut, poetic text unite in a powerful rendering of the way any war ruptures ordinary lives not so different from our own.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2002

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