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Gr 7-9 Parallel stories follow teenagers Spence Morgan, a farm boy from Utah, and Dieter Hedrick, a farm boy from Bavaria. Stirred by complex feelings of patriotism and adolescent insecurities, both young men find themselves fighting for their respective countries in World War II. The first part of the story follows Spence from his small-town life to the rigors of basic training as a paratrooper; Dieter has left his famil...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

This World War II novel tells parallel stories of two young soldiers fighting on opposite sides. Sixteen-year-old Spencer, a Mormon from Utah, drops out of high school to begin paratrooper training. On the other side of the world, Dieter's blind devotion to the Führer gets him promoted, at age fifteen, from Hitler Youth into the German army. Though t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More