Fallen Angels
Walter Dean Myers
Hardcover
(Scholastic Paperbacks, May 1, 2008)
Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry has just graduated from high school. There's no way he can afford college and the streets are just too hard, so he signs up for the Army and gets shipped off to Vietnam. In a battlefield jungle where every move can mean the difference between life and death he meets Peewee, Lobel, Johnson and Brunner. They're all here for different reasons but now they share a single dream - getting out alive.
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