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Carregando... Prisoner of War: A Novel of World War IIde Michael P. Spradlin
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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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Historical Fiction: 1941-1945
Christina's Review on Goodreads.com -
This novel is intended for mature upper elementary readers and middle school readers. My daughter, who is 10 and therefore the intended audience, really enjoyed this book. She insisted I read it as soon as she was finished with it. I think that, had I read this closer to her age, I would've enjoyed it a lot more as well. I really enjoyed that there are more and more age appropriate historical fictions being offered to younger readers. This one focuses on a point in WW2 that you don't often hear about as much as others. But, for me, this was a hard book to get through, not because of any atrocities happening, but because of the pacing and somewhat repetitive dialogue.
The march, which is described as a focal point of this novel, is somewhat glossed over. The majority of this novel takes place during the soldiers captivity. For all the brutality that was going on throughout (I'm sure it was also toned down brutality for the younger readers), the ending was just a little too smooth and happily ever after to be believable by me. In the author's afterword, he did go into some of the realities about what it was like for soldiers returning home after the war, but the fact that it wasn't tied into the story itself left me dissatisfied by the ending.
Throughout the captivity and even before it, everyone's dialogue just seemed very repetitive, which caused me to quickly lose interest and set this aside for other reading materials. Because of that, it took me quite a while to finish this. The last bit of the book I mainly skimmed through. So, would I recommend it? To younger readers, yes. I love that my daughter reads books from multiple genres, including historical fiction and I do think it's important for younger generations to learn what they can about the history of our world and the many different points in time throughout it, whether they were good or bad. But for adults? It may not hold your interest and there are far better historical fictions out there. Honestly, even researching the Death March online before I began this book held my interest more.