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By Jerome Charyn

Subjects: New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction, Criminals, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Fiction, World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Juvenile fiction, Schools -- Fiction, Criminals -- Fiction, Schools

Description: Eleven-year-old Jack Dalton, a sensitive student at a private school in New York City in 1943, wants to go to Battan as a soldier just like his dead father, but instead he proves his bravery in an encounter with a mysterious hobo.