Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam

In a gripping and powerful story-poem, award-winning author Walter Dean Myers takes readers into the heart and mind of a young soldier in an alien land who comes face-to-face with the enemy. Strikingly illustrated with evocative and emotionally wrenching collages by Caldecott Honor artist Ann Grifalconi, this unforgettable portrait captures one American G.L's haunting experience.

Walter Dean Myers joined the army on his seventeeth birthday, at the onset of American involvement in Vietnam, but it was the death of his brother in 1968 that forever changed his mind about war.

Vietnam.

A young American soldier waits for his enemy, rifle in hand, finger on the trigger. He is afraid to move and yet afraid not to move. Gunshots crackle in the still air. The soldier fires blindly into the distant trees at an unseen enemy. He crouches and waits -- heart pounding, tense and trembling, biting back tears. When will it all be over?

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 01/04/2005
ISBN: 9780060731595
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.32h x 9.72w x 0.15d

Review Citations: School Library Journal 04/01/2005 pg. 57
Black Issues Book Review 05/01/2005 pg. 66
Ingram Children's Advance 01/01/2005 pg. 55
Booklist 12/15/2004 pg. 731
PW Notes and Reprints 01/03/2005 pg. 58
Kliatt 01/01/2005 pg. 28
Publishers Weekly 01/03/2005

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 59487 / Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam
Reading Level: 3 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 0.5