Summary
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. Full description
Summary: |
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. |
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Item Description: |
In container (17 cm.). Title from container. "Unabridged Fiction"--Container. "With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container. Compact discs. |
Physical Description: |
7 audio discs (8 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. Issued also on cassette. Issued also as Recorded Books Unabridged Fiction on compact disc with book. |
Audience: |
12 years and up. Young Adult. |
Awards: |
Coretta Scott King Author Award, 1989 |
ISBN: |
141933218X 9781419332180 |
Author Notes: |
He entered and won a 1969 contest sponsored by the Council on Interracial Books for Children, which led to the publication of his first book, Where Does the Day Go? During his lifetime, he wrote more than 100 fiction and nonfiction books for children and young adults. His works include Fallen Angels, Bad Boy, Darius and Twig, Scorpions, Lockdown, Sunrise Over Fallujah, Invasion, Juba!, and On a Clear Day. He also collaborated with his son Christopher, an artist, on a number of picture books for young readers including We Are America: A Tribute from the Heart and Harlem, which received a Caldecott Honor Award, as well as the teen novel Autobiography of My Dead Brother. He was the winner of the first-ever Michael L. Printz Award for Monster, the first recipient of the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, and a recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults. He also won the Coretta Scott King Award for African American authors five times. He died on July 1, 2014, following a brief illness, at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) |