I Pledge Allegiance (Vietnam #1)
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Four best friends. Four ways to serve their country.
Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck are best friends for life. So when one of the teens is drafted into the Vietnam War, the others sign up, too. Although they each serve in a different branch, they are fighting the war together--and they pledge to do all they can to come home together.
Haunted by dreams of violence and death, Morris makes it his personal mission to watch over his friends--and the best place to do that is in the US Navy. Stationed off the coast of Vietnam on the USS Boston, Morris and his fellow sailors provide crucial support to the troops on the ground.
But the Boston itself isn't safe from attack. And as Morris finds his courage and resolve tested like never before, he keeps coming back to a single thought.
He made a pledge. He must keep them safe.
| Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck are best friends for life. So when one of the teens is drafted into the Vietnam War, the others sign up, too. Although they each serve in a different branch, they are fighting the war together--and they pledge to do all they can to come home together.
Haunted by dreams of violence and death, Morris makes it his personal mission to watch over his friends--and the best place to do that is in the US Navy. Stationed off the coast of Vietnam on the USS Boston, Morris and his fellow sailors provide crucial support to the troops on the ground.
But the Boston itself isn't safe from attack. And as Morris finds his courage and resolve tested like never before, he keeps coming back to a single thought.
He made a pledge. He must keep them safe.
Praise for Chris Lynch's Vietnam series:
"The best Vietnam War novels yet for this age range." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Lynch brilliantly captures the war in small details." -- Booklist
"A fine balance of thoughtfulness and gritty action." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Praise for Chris Lynch's World War II series:
*"A expertly crafted war story with fluid prose, bleak humor, careful attention to historic detail, and a view of 'The Good War' worth pondering." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review
"All the sizzle, chaos, noise and scariness of war is clay in the hands of ace storyteller Lynch." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Though aimed at younger readers, Lynch doesn't write down, instead offering a powerful taste of war on a personal level." -- Publishers Weekly
| "The best Vietnam War novels yet for this age range." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Lynch brilliantly captures the war in small details." -- Booklist
"A fine balance of thoughtfulness and gritty action." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Praise for Chris Lynch's World War II series:
*"A expertly crafted war story with fluid prose, bleak humor, careful attention to historic detail, and a view of 'The Good War' worth pondering." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review
"All the sizzle, chaos, noise and scariness of war is clay in the hands of ace storyteller Lynch." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Though aimed at younger readers, Lynch doesn't write down, instead offering a powerful taste of war on a personal level." -- Publishers Weekly
Chris Lynch is the author of numerous acclaimed books for middle-grade and teen readers, including the Vietnam and World War II series and the National Book Award finalist Inexcusable. He teaches in the Lesley University creative writing MFA program, and divides his time between Massachusetts and Scotland.
| I have had the dream a lot. It's a nightmare. Ivan shouldn't be surprised to hear I have had the dream again. I watch the news. These days even if you don't watch the news, you watch the news. It finds you. It's everywhere. The whole world is Vietnam now. The surprise is that everybody in the entire United States is not having the same nightmare as me, every single night.Because my dream is a crystal clear vision of torn flesh and burned flesh and the end of everything we know, all dying there in the scorching jungle of Vietnam. Four great friends, one mighty beast of a friendship shredded to bits by that war thing going on.
All four of us die every single time. Sometimes it's in a different order. Sometimes we all die at once. Sometimes it's a wall of fire and sometimes a hail of bullets, stabbing, slicing, exploding or drowning.
But always we die, every time.
And it's my fault, every time.
Because I let it happen. Which is why I can't let it happen.
Which is why we have the pledge.
PUBLISHER:
Scholastic Inc.
ISBN-10:
1338157647
ISBN-13:
9780545270298
BINDING:
Hardback - With dust jacket
BISAC:
Juvenile Fiction
PUBLICATION YEAR:
2011
NUMBER OF PAGES:
192
BOOK DIMENSIONS:
8.25(H) x 5.50(W)
AUDIENCE TYPE:
Children
LANGUAGE:
English