A Boy at War

Title: A Boy at War

Author: Harry Mazer

ISBN: 9780689841613

Genre: Historical, Adventure

Audiences: 10-14 age

Summary
Adam is a fourteen-year-old navy boy. His father is a military officer. In 1941, He and his family moved Honolulu, Hawaii because his father was assigned to Pearl Harbor. Adam started his new school and made friends as he always does. Two of his friends were Davi, an America born Japanese, and Martian, a native Hawaiian. After a movie night with his parent, Adam's father was called to cover one of officers because of a family emergency. Next morning, Adam and his friends want to fishing in Pearl Harbor one day. Suddenly, everything changed. The war had begun. Adam witnessed that his father's battleship sank into the water. It was suffering to wait to heard from his father.

Review
The story was astonishing. Cannot imagine a fourteen-year-old has to face as what Adam has to face in the story. Adam not just has to faced the war also the death of his father. This is too stocking for teenagers, but it is also something  teenagers have to face during his or her life. Of course, teenagers in this generation do not have to face war directly. Death and departure is something people have to face and accept. It is and will be a great lesson for teenagers. A remarkable book.