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Author:

Spradlin, Michael P. author.

Title:

Prisoner Of War : A Novel Of World War II Michael P. Spradlin

Publisher:

Scholastic Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

251 pages

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese--Juvenile fiction.
Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942--Juvenile fiction.
Forced labor--Japan--Juvenile fiction.
Survival--Juvenile fiction.
Philippines--History--Japanese occupation, 1942-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Tokyo (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1944-1945--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Japanese--Fiction.
Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942--Fiction.
Forced labor--Fiction.
Survival--Fiction.
Philippines--History--Japanese occupation, 1942-1945--Fiction.
Tokyo (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1944-1945--Fiction.
Japan--History--1926-1945--Fiction.

Summary:

Fifteen-year-old Henry Forrest lies about his age and enlists in the Marines to escape from his abusive father, but when he is immediately sent to the Philippines he finds himself in the middle of the Japanese invasion--and as he grows up he will have to endure the Bataan Death March, overcrowded prisons, and the Japanese factory in Tokyo where he is eventually sent as slave labor.

ISBN:

054585783X
9780545857833

LCCN:

2016040575

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