Purple Heart
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.66 (813 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1481533231 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Teen Reads said One of the Best Books I Have Read in Years. It is quite a shock to be in a war zone one moment and to wake up in a hospital bed the next, barely able to move.Matt Duffy, a private in the U.S. Army who is serving in the Iraq War, opens his eyes to a doctor poking his feet with a sharp object, testing his nervous system. He is having flashbacks from the attack, a strange sequence of events that seems to culminate in a child being shot and an explosion right next to him. Matt doesn't remember exact. James F. Booth said Purple Heart by Patricia McCormick. I picked this up from my shelves to read recently mainly because I'd been reading a LOT of more light-hearted novels and so felt I needed something more serious to kind of balance it all out. I've also read a tiny bit of McCormick before ("Cut" and her story in "Up All Night") and was excited to read this new book of hers. This is a great book and is written so well. It's told in third person but mainly focuses on Matt and his story is so compelling. T. Richie's Picks: PURPLE HEART N. S. "Matt thought about his squad, about Justin, about Wolf and Figueroa, about their new squad leader, Sergeant McNally. The first thought that came to mind wasn't a firefight or a door-to-door search."It was the time Wolf's mom sent him a bunch of cans of Silly String. The whole squad ran around the barracks, hiding and ambushing one another, spraying neon green Silly String everywhere, imitating the ack-ack sound of an M16 each time their fired. They we
There was a pair of boots for every soldier who'd died and a pile of shoes to represent the civilian lives that had been lost. She also took part in a peace demonstration with veterans from the war in Iraq. To research Purple Heart, she traveled all around the country to interview soldiers as well as the families of soldiers who went to Iraq and
But because of a head injury he sustained just moments after the boy was shot, Matt can't quite put all the pieces together. There's a memory that haunts him: an image of a young Iraqi boy as a bullet hits his chest. Young Adult Fiction (Ages 12-17)Read by Adam Verner From National Book Award finalist Patricia McCormick comes a visceral and compelling portrait of life in a war zone where loyalty is valued above all and death is terrifyingly commonplace. But he doesn't feel like a hero. In combat there is no black and white, and Matt soon discovers that the notion of who is truly guilty is very complicated indeed.. Eventually Matt is sent back into combat with his squad - Justin, Wolf, and Charlene - the soldiers who have become his family during his time in Iraq. He just wants to go back to being the soldier he once was, but he sees potential threats everywhere and lives in fear of not being able to
PURPLE HEART is a visceral and affecting portrait of their world.'' --Bob Woodruff, ABC News ''McCormick builds the plot subtly and carefully with rich, spare prose.'' --Kirkus Reviews ''In this suspenseful psychological thriller…McCormick raises moral questions without judgment and will have readers examining not only this conflict but the nature of heroism and war.'' --Publishers Weekly (starred review) . What they and the children of Iraq are experiencing is not a political issue-it's a human issue. ''Gripping details of existence in a war zone bring this to life.'' --ALA Booklist ''Many of the soldiers in Iraq were not yet teenagers when this war began