Mazer, Harry

Heroes don't run : a novel of the Pacific war / Harry Mazer. - New York : Scholastic, c2005. - 113 p.

To honor his father who died during the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor, seventeen-year-old Adam eagerly enlists in the Marines in 1944, survives boot camp, and faces combat on the tiny island of Okinawa.

ISBN: 0-439-79391-2 (pbk.) ;

Subjects--Topical Terms:
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Fiction.--Japan--Okinawa Island
United States. Marine Corps--Fiction