{"product_id":"patrol-an-american-soldier-in-vietnam-9780060731595","title":"Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalter 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVietnam\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e HarperCollins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/04\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780060731595\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.32h x 9.72w x 0.15d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2005 pg. 57\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Issues Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2005 pg. 66\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIngram Children's Advance\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2005 pg. 55\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2004 pg. 731\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePW Notes and Reprints\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/03\/2005 pg. 58\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKliatt\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2005 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/03\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e59487 \/ Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 3 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Middle Grade \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.5\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Walter Dean Myers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42916714315957,"sku":"9780060731595","price":10.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_c9ca275d-6c5a-445b-a975-e6dac47f3ff2.jpg?v=1687269245","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/patrol-an-american-soldier-in-vietnam-9780060731595","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}