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By Jerome Charyn

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

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.