Ultimate Attack
Copyright © 2017 by Michael P. Spradlin
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Spradlin, Michael P., author.
Title: Prisoner of war / Michael P. Spradlin.
Description: First edition. | New York : Scholastic Press, 2017. | Summary: Fifteen-year-old Henry Forrest lies about his age and enlists in the Marines to escape from his abusive father, but when he is immediately sent to the Philippines he finds himself in the middle of the Japanese invasion—and as he grows up he will have to endure the Bataan Death March, overcrowded prisons, and the Japanese factory in Tokyo where he is eventually sent as slave labor.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016040575 | ISBN 9780545857833
Subjects: LCSH: World War, 1939–1945—Prisoners and prisons, Japanese—Juvenile fiction. | Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942—Juvenile fiction. | Forced labor—Japan—Juvenile fiction. | Survival—Juvenile fiction. | Philippines—History—Japanese occupation, 1942–1945—Juvenile fiction. | Tokyo (Japan)—History—Bombardment, 1944–1945—Juvenile fiction. | CYAC: World War, 1939–1945—Prisoners and prisons, Japanese—Fiction. | Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942—Fiction. | Forced labor—Fiction. | Survival—Fiction. | Philippines—History—Japanese occupation, 1942–1945—Fiction. | Tokyo (Japan)—History—Bombardment, 1944–1945—Fiction. | Japan—History—1926–1945—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.S7645 Pr 2017 | DDC 813.54 [Fic] —dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016040575
First edition, July 2017
Jacket art © 2017 by Mike Heath
Jacket design by Christopher Stengel
e-ISBN 978-0-545-86151-9
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