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Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor by Alan Gratz
4.0
“How do you think you can write about heroes if you can’t be one yourself?”
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December 6, 1941: best friends, neighbors and both dads in the Navy, Stanley and Frank are spending the day discussing superheroes and comic books—their favorite topic. When bullies show up and start pounding on Stanley, Frank freezes and doesn’t help his buddy. The next day the boys are on the USS Utah with Frank’s sister’s boyfriend when Japanese planes zoom overhead and start dropping bombs. As the boys rush to find their families and to safety, Frank learns what it means to come face to face with his biggest fears and learn what it means to be a hero.
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The Day That Will Live in Infamy is one we all grew up hearing about. @alan.gratz puts us right in the event. It felt like the reader was really there, dodging bullets and bombs. Gratz tackles topics in this MG book, the biggest of which was the racism and anti-Asian hate that exploded after the U.S. got into WWII. The author’s note was especially powerful, chock full of information for young readers. As always, we can count on Gratz to write compelling historical fiction that kids and adults relate to and love. This novel releases 2.6 through @scholastic
CW: war, violence, death, bullying, racism, microaggressions, blood, hospitalization, gore, anxiety, animal attack, fire
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December 6, 1941: best friends, neighbors and both dads in the Navy, Stanley and Frank are spending the day discussing superheroes and comic books—their favorite topic. When bullies show up and start pounding on Stanley, Frank freezes and doesn’t help his buddy. The next day the boys are on the USS Utah with Frank’s sister’s boyfriend when Japanese planes zoom overhead and start dropping bombs. As the boys rush to find their families and to safety, Frank learns what it means to come face to face with his biggest fears and learn what it means to be a hero.
⛴️
The Day That Will Live in Infamy is one we all grew up hearing about. @alan.gratz puts us right in the event. It felt like the reader was really there, dodging bullets and bombs. Gratz tackles topics in this MG book, the biggest of which was the racism and anti-Asian hate that exploded after the U.S. got into WWII. The author’s note was especially powerful, chock full of information for young readers. As always, we can count on Gratz to write compelling historical fiction that kids and adults relate to and love. This novel releases 2.6 through @scholastic
CW: war, violence, death, bullying, racism, microaggressions, blood, hospitalization, gore, anxiety, animal attack, fire