The+Vietnam+War

Myers, Walter Dean. **__Fallen Angels__**. Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam. __**Lexile: 650**__

O'Brien, Tim. **__The Things they Carried__**. Presents a collection of interconnected short stories that explore the Vietnam War experiences of the men of Alpha Company, beginning with a meditation on the things carried by each soldier, practical and personal, as they make their way through the theater of war. Interest Level: Gr. 10-Adult. **Lexile: 880.**

Coe, Charles. **__Young Man in Vietnam.__** The true story of one young man's year as a Marine lieutenant in Vietnam. Interest Level: Gr. 7-12. **Lexile:**

Hahn, Mary Downing. **__December Stillness.__** Fourteen-year-old Kelly tries to befriend Mr. Weems, a disturbed, homeless Vietnam War veteran who spends his days in her suburban library, though the man makes it clear he wants to be left alone. Interest Level: Gr. 5-9. **Lexile: 860.**

Mason, Bobbie Ann. **__In Country.__** Sam Hughes lives in Hopewell, Kentucky with her Uncle Emmett who is a Vietnam veteran. Sam's father was killed in Vietnam and she wants to understand about the war, but Emmett and other vets refuse to tell her much. Interest Level: Gr. 11-Adult. **Lexile: 730**.

O’Brien, Tim. **__Going After Cacciato__**. In a blend of reality and fantasy, this novel tells the story of a young soldier who one day lays down his rifle and sets off on a quixotic journey from the jungles of Indochina to the streets of Paris. Interest Level: Gr. 11-Adult. **Lexile: 620**

Paulsen, Gary. **__The Car.__** A teenager left on his own travels west in a kit car he built himself, and along the way picks up two Vietnam veterans, who take him on an eye-opening journey. Interest Level: Gr. 6-9. **Lexile: 900.**

Hayslip, Le Ly. **__When Heaven and Earth Changed Places__**. An account of the Vietnam War by a child of the war who survived the horror, then fled to the U.S. to find peace. Interest Level: Gr. 11-Adult. **Lexile: 1100**.

Cao, Lan. **__Monkey Bridge.__** While a young Vietnamese girl tells of her immigrant experience in America, her mother tells a darker version involving political intrigue, family secrets, and revenge. Interest Level: YA-Adult. **Lexile:**

Butler, Robert Olen. **__A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain__**. A collection of short stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Interest Level: YA – Adult. **Lexile: 1070**.

Edelman, Bernard. **__Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam__**. Contains letters and poems written to families and friends by soldiers expressing their homesickness and the horrors of war. Interest Level: YA-Adult. **Lexile: 980**.

Paterson, Katherine. **__Park’s Quest__**. Eleven-year-old Park makes some startling discoveries when he travels to his grandfather's farm in Virginia to learn about his father who died in the Vietnam War. Interest Level: Gr. 6-8. **Lexile: 710**.

Caputo, Philip. **__A Rumor of War.__** A view of what the experience of Vietnam meant to a young college graduate. Interest Level: YA-Adult. Lexile:

Del Vecchio, John M. **__13th Valley__**. James Chelini, an infantryman stationed in Vietnam who begins the book as a reluctant soldier and near pacifist, slowly descends into violence and militarism as he learns to fight in the jungles of North Vietnam. Interest Level:. **Lexile:**

Garland, Sherry. **__Song of the Buffalo Boy__**. Shunned because of her mixed heritage and determined to avoid an arranged marriage, 17-year-old Loi runs away to Ho Chi Minh City, hoping to get to the U.S. and find her father. Interest Level: Gr. 7-12. **Lexile: 900**.