A boy at war by Harry Mazer
A boy at war is about a teenager named Adam who’s growing up in a military family. His dad is in the navy so the house is run like a ship. Since he’s a navy brat who travels he’s always been to schools where there were other military families, but now since he’s in Hawaii he’s surrounded by civilians. He has it rough fur the first few days, but this kid named Davi starts picking on him a little and oddly enough they end up being buds. So they start hanging around with all the other Hawaiian kids. You know, play football and go fishing. It seemed like it was going good but when he told his dad, he said that he didn’t want him to be hanging around them because there was a lot of friction between the U.S. and Japan and since over half of the population was Japanese that his dad didn’t want to take any chances. One day he doesn’t listen to his dad and goes fishing with Davi and one of his other Hawaiian friends. They decided to go fishing in Pearl Harbor. They were going to go fishing off the shore but they find a boat in the bushes. So they go out in the ocean and coincidentally the Japanese decide to attack while they are in the ocean. But that’s just the beginning. See where the war tales Adam from there…..
On a scale of 1 (worst) to 10 (best) I give this book a rating of : 8
You can find this book at almost any local library. Including the school library.
Reviewed by Noah D2P6
2 comments:
This sounds like a book that would hold your interest and allow you to get a sense of what some of our soldiers must be feeling. Great review.
that book was very interesting and the kid did not get to see his dad alot because he had to go on ships then dad got called in to go to the war so it was sad too
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