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2020

Title:	War stories / Gordon Korman.
Author:	Korman, Gordon, author.
Format:	Book
Edition:	First edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Scholastic Press, [2020] ©2020
Description:	231 pages ; 22 cm
Summary:	Twelve-year-old Trevor Firestone loves playing war-based video games and he idolizes his great-grandfather Jacob who came home from World War II a celebrated hero; now ninety-three Jacob wants to retrace his journey in memory and reality and return to the small French village that his unit liberated, and Trevor is going with him--but not everyone in the town want Jacob to come, and Trevor is going to learn an important lesson: real war is not a video game, and valor and heroism can be very murky concepts.
Target Audience Note:	Ages 9-11. Scholastic Press. Grades 4-6. Scholastic Press.
Subjects:	Great-grandfathers -- Juvenile fiction. Veterans -- Juvenile fiction. Heroes -- Juvenile fiction. World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Juvenile fiction. Secrecy -- Juvenile fiction. France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre:	War fiction.
ISBN:	9781338290202 1338290207 9781338290226 1338290223
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Gordon Korman is the beloved author of over one hundred novels for young readers, including hilarious middle-grade classics such as the Macdonald Hall series, I Want to Go Home and Slacker. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Gordon grew up in Thornhill, Ontario, and now lives in New York with his family. Visit him online at www.gordonkorman.com.

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