Warriors in the crossfire

Label

Warriors in the crossfire

Statement of responsibility

Nancy Bo Flood

Creator

• Flood, Bo.

Subject

• Survival -- Fiction.
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Northern Mariana Islands | Saipan -- Fiction.
• Saipan, Battle of, Northern Mariana Islands, 1944 -- Juvenile fiction.
• Chamorro (Micronesian people) -- Northern Mariana Islands | Saipan -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
• Saipan, Battle of, Northern Mariana Islands, 1944 -- Fiction.
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Northern Mariana Islands | Saipan -- Juvenile fiction.
• Historical fiction.
• Saipan -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
• Saipan -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
• Chamorro (Micronesian people) -- Fiction.

Genre

• Historical fiction.
• Fiction.
• Juvenile fiction.

Language

eng

Summary

Twelve-year-old Joseph helps his family to survive when the natives of Saipan are caught in the crossfire between the Japanese soldiers and the American troops at the end of World War II

Subject

• World War II
• Cousins
• Teenagers and war
• Teenage boys
• Historical fiction
• Multiracial teenage boys
• Saipan, Battle of, 1944
• Survival
• Marianas Islands -- History -- 20th century
• War stories
• Friendship
• First person narratives
• Military campaigns
• Thirteen-year-old boys

Genre

• First person narratives
• War stories
• Historical fiction

Award

• Notable Books for a Global Society, 2011.
• Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2010
• YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2011

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

[Fic]

Index

no index present

LC call number

PZ7.F6618

LC item number

War 2010

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560

Literary form

fiction

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• 5
• 9

Nature of contents

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Target audience

adolescent