CCBC Choices 2024 -- Teens (ages 12 and up)

The Cooperative Children's Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison compiles a yearly list of excellent books for youth readers.

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1. Race against death: the greatest POW rescue of World War II

Author:

Hopkinson, Deborah

Series:

True stories in focus

Notes:

Historical People, Places, and Events;12-up

1 copy on order.

Available Copies	Location	Call Number
0 of 1	Boulder Main Childrens Nonfiction	J 940.54725 Hopk
0 of 1	Boulder NoBo Childrens Nonfiction	J 940.547 Hopk
1 of 1	Broomfield Children's Non-Fiction	J 940.54 Hopki
1 of 1	Lafayette Children's Nonfiction Area	940.54 Hop
1 of 1	Longmont Children's Nonfiction	J 940.54 HOP
1 of 1	Louisville Children's NonFiction	J 940.5472 HOPKINSO
1 of 1	Loveland Children's Nonfiction	940.5472 Hopkinson, D.
1 on order	Lafayette Public Library On Order	ON ORDER

Pub. Date

Edition

Publisher

Physical Desc.

Availability

2023

First edition

Scholastic Focus

xxix, 289 pages : illustrations, maps, photographs, portraits ; 22 cm.

1 copy on order.

More Info

Description:

"Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, America entered World War II, and a new theater of battle opened up in the Pacific. But US troops, along with thousands of Filipino soldiers who fought alongside them, were overtaken in the Philippines by a fiercely determined Japanese navy, and many Americans and Filipino fighters were killed or captured.These American and Filipino prisoners of war were forced to endure the most horrific conditions on the deadly...