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Fallen Angels
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Fallen Angels
by Walter Dean MyersA coming-of-age tale for young adults set in the trenches of the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, this is the story of Perry, a Harlem teenager who volunteers for the service when his dream of attending college falls through. Sent to the front lines, Perry and his platoon come face-to-face with the Vietcong and the real horror of warfare. But violence and death aren't the only hardships. As Perry struggles to find virtue in himself and his comrades, he questions why black troops are given the mos
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Walter Dean Myers Grades 9-12
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Walter Dean Myers Grades 9-12
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• Bad Boy*
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• Riot
• Slam!*
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Paperback Book Collection | Grades 9-12
Grades 9-12 $41.82
Interest Level:
9-12
Lexile Framework:
650L
Grade Level Equivalent:
8.1
Guided Reading Level:
NR
Age:
14-18
Genre:
Realistic Fiction
Subject:
American History, African American, Vietnam War, Courage, Bravery, Heroism, Honor
"There's only two kinds of people in Vietnam. People who are alert twenty-fours a day, and people who are dead."
Richie Perry was seventeen and in trouble. There was no way he could afford college, and the streets were just too hard. He hadn't really given the army too much thought. It was enough that it would give him something to do and three meals a day. He just wanted to cool out till he got himself together.
Basic training wasn't so hard. But there were things they didn't tell him in basic.
They didn't tell him about Nam Rot, or napalm that sucked the air out of your lungs from a hundred yards away, or the body bags that lay in neat piles, ready for the next soldier to die.
They didn't tell him how it felt to shoot at Vietnamese soldiers no older than you were, and just as afraid.
In a novel rich in characters and authentic in detail, Walter Dean Myers tells the powerful story of one seventeen-year-old's tour of duty. Fallen Angels is a testament to the thousands of young adults who fought and died in the Vietnam War.
Contains mature content.
