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War stories / Gordon Korman.
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-year-old 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 wants 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781338290202
- ISBN: 1338290207
- ISBN: 9780605027916
- ISBN: 0605027919
- ISBN: 9781338290226
- ISBN: 1338290223
- Physical Description: 231 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Scholastic Press, 2020.
Content descriptions
| Target Audience Note: | Ages 9-11. Scholastic Press. Grades 4-6. Scholastic Press. 770L Lexile |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.7 9.0 Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.7 9 508536. |
| Awards Note: | 2022-2023 Mark Twain Award nominee. |
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| Genre: | War fiction. Fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Marshall Public Library | JF FAM KOR (Text) | 33391000189649 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
| Marshall Public Library | JF FAM KOR (Text) | 33391000311200 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
War Stories
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War Stories
A story of telling truth from lies - and finding out what being a hero really means. There are two things Trevor loves more than anything else: playing war-based video games and his great-grandfather Jacob, who is a true-blue, bona fide war hero. At the height of the war, Jacob helped liberate a small French village, and was given a hero's welcome upon his return to America. Now it's decades later, and Jacob wants to retrace the steps he took during the war - from training to invasion to the village he is said to have saved. Trevor thinks this is the coolest idea ever. But as they get to the village, Trevor discovers there's more to the story than what he's heard his whole life, causing him to wonder about his great-grandfather's heroism, the truth about the battle he fought, and importance of genuine valor.
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