South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award
1990 · Young Adult · Winner
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FIGHTING TO SURVIVE
Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry has just graduated from high school. There's no way he can afford college, and the streets are just too hard. So he signs up for the army and gets shipped off to Vietnam. In a battlefield jungle where every move can mean the difference between life and death, he meets Peewee, Lobel, Johnson, and Brunner. They're all here for different reasons, but now they share a single dream—getting out alive.
Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry has just graduated from high school. There's no way he can afford college, and the streets are just too hard. So he signs up for the army and gets shipped off to Vietnam. In a battlefield jungle where every move can mean the difference between life and death, he meets Peewee, Lobel, Johnson, and Brunner. They're all here for different reasons, but now they share a single dream—getting out alive.
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