Books by Patricia McCormick
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review 1: Arn Chorn-Pond was a Cambodian boy who lived a normal l life of school, music and rock-and-roll. Suddenly the brutal rule of Communist Khmer Rouge took control in 1975, and he joined most Cambodians into refugee camps stricken death, starvation, overwork and disease. Arn surviv...
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review 1: This was one of the best books I’ve read in the last 5 years. “Purple Heart” was about an 18 year old boy who was hospitalized in the army. He suffered a traumatic brain injury and didn’t know what happened the day he was injured. The book tells about his journey to remembering ...
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review 1: I appreciated the way that McCormick took a timely topic - the Iraq War - and helped us see the effects of this war on soldiers and Iraqis alike. Her protagonist, Private Matt McDuffy, is complicated and all the more real because of it. He struggles to piece together the events...