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Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.Product Videos
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Author Walter Dean Myers
Binding Paperback
Grade Content 9-12
Guided Reading Z
Copyright 2008
Lexile 680
Accelerated Reading Level 4.2
Subject United States History
Standard SSUSH21a. International policies and actions due to Cold War- U.S. involvement in Cuba, escalation of war in Vietnam, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
Book Type Historical Fiction