A review by allapaz
Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen

4.0

the fact that Mr. Gary Paulsen still has an absolute chokehold over the 6th grade mind in the year of our lord 2024 is wild to me, but this one holds up. looking forward to what the kids think as we work through this in class

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, War, and Violence

Moderate: Slavery, Medical content, and Suicidal thoughts

Listen, this is a book about a teenager's experience fighting in some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. The forward has a discussion on PTSD and warns that this is intense, and it is for a book for young people, but it's also very real.