📖Recommend for Grades 6 and up📖
It is
D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the Allies are invading France. Dee Carpenter is an
American Solider, though underage, and is just one of the many men storming the
beach that day. Also, there is African American medic Henry Allen and British
tank driver Bill Richards. Elsewhere is eleven-year-old Samira Zidano, who
works alongside her mother in the French Resistance, and Canadian paratrooper
James McKay. There is also Monique Marchand, a thirteen-year-old who just
wanted to get the bathing suit she left at the beach. While they each have
their own story, they each play a role in this important day in history.
Despite
the large cast of character, the book mainly contains chapters on Dee Carpenter
with the others woven in. Each character and their story are wonderfully
crafted and realistic. Each section is brilliantly broken down into operations,
with notes to the date and time, giving it more a war feel. In the back of the
book, readers will find a guide to all the operations mentioned in the book.
Historical fiction fans should be sure to pick up this book.
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