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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Robin 'Birdy' Perry, a new army recruit from Harlem, isn't quite sure why he joined the army, but he's sure where he's headed: Iraq. Birdy and the others in the Civilian Affairs Battalion are supposed to help secure and stabilize the country and successfully interact with the Iraqi people. Officially, the code name for their maneuvers is Operation Iraqi Freedom. But the young men and women in the CA unit have a simpler name for it: WAR"--Cover verso...
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The summer after his absentee father is killed in a random shooting, Paul volunteers at a Harlem soup kitchen where he listens to lessons about "the social contract" from an elderly African American man, and mentors a seventeen-year-old unwed mother who wants to make it to college on a basketball scholarship
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