Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers (Like New, 2008, HC, 290 pgs)

Used in like new condition. ISBN 9780545103800

Operation Iraqi Freedom, that's the code name.

In this novel, Walter Dean Myers looks at a contemporary war with the same power and searing insight he brought to the Vietnam war. He creates memorable characters like the book's narrator, Birdy, a young recruit from Harlem who's questioning why he even enlisted; Marla, a blond, tough-talking, wisecracking gunner; Jonesy, a guitar-playing bluesman who just wants to make it back to Georgia and open a club; Victor, an ex-gangbanger; and Captain Miller, a thoughtful and complicated military doctor. Birdy and the others in Civil Affairs are supposed to help secure and stabilize Iraq and successfully interact with the Iraqi people. Officially, the code name for their maneuvers is Operation Iraqi Freedom. But these young men and women in the CA unit have a simpler name for it: War. (Scholastic; 2008; 290 pgs)