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OLDER FICTION
Watkins, Steve

On Blood Road

281 pp. | Scholastic | October, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-1-338-19701-3 $17.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-338-19702-0
(3) YA American teen Taylor Sorenson, son of a Special Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in 1968 Vietnam, sneaks out to explore Saigon on his own on the night the Tet Offensive begins and is kidnapped by North Vietnamese soldiers. Marched along the Ho Chi Minh Trail as a POW, Taylor sees wartime atrocities firsthand. An appended author's note adds context to this harrowing historical novel.
Reviewer: Kristy Pasquariello

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