Original author: Chris Crowe
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Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Children
054430215X (ISBN13: 9780544302150)
SYNOPSIS
It’s 1968, and war is not foreign to seventeen-year-old Ashe. His dogmatic, racist father married his passionate peace-activist mother when she became pregnant with him, and ever since, the couple, like the situation in Vietnam, has been engaged in a “senseless war that could have been prevented.”
When his high school history teacher dares to teach the political realities of the war, Ashe grows to better understand the situation in Vietnam, his family, and the wider world around him. But when a new crisis hits his parents’ marriage, Ashe finds himself trapped, with no options before him but to enter the fray.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chris was born in Danville, Illinois. He taught high school English for 10 years at McClintock High School in Tempe, and earned his master’s degree and doctorate from Arizona State University. He has taught at universities in Japan and in Hawaii and currently works at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He and his wife have four children and four grandchildren. |
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