The Horn Book Magazine, May 1st, 2001
Harry Mazer A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor 105 pp. Simon 5/01 ISBN 0-689-84161-2 15.00 (g) (High School)
An epigraph to Harry Mazer's brief but poignant novel sets a solemn tone: "Nobody, however young, returns from war still a boy." The threat of war with Japan is exciting to fourteen-year-old Adam Pelko, son of a naval officer recently transferred to Hawaii at the brink of America's entry into WWII. Adam knows it's a little "corny," but the military and its conventions fill him with pride. What's more complicated for him to sort out, however, is his relationship with his father--"c...
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