In addition, he was the winner of the first Michael L.

These solders had to quickly learn and adapt to a war environment to survive the war mentally and physically. The average age of an American solder was 19 years old.

Myers has received two Newbery Honor medals, five Coretta Scott King Author Book Awards, and three National Book Award Finalist citations. The book Fallen Angels, by, Walter Dean Myers does a satisfactory job portraying the life of a United States solider in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. First, the internal struggle, as Perry experiences the terror of the war and turns to spirituality and to those around him for. He was the critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of an award-winning body of work which includes Somewhere in the Darkness, Slam!, and Monster. We can point to two major aspects of the climax of Fallen Angels. The late Walter Dean Myers was the 2012-2013 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. Jackson brings listeners directly into the jungles of Vietnam with 17-year-old African-American Richie Perry and his fellow soldiers in Walter De.

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