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Finalist for the National Book Award, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive in Iraq. "The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. Bound together since basic training when Bartle makes a promise to bring Murphy safely home, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for. In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that press in on every side: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him and Bartle takes actions he could never have imagined. With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel that is destined to become a classic.
Author: Kevin Powers
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 04/30/2013
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780316219341
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.5
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 156980 / Yellow Birds
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 05/05/2013 pg. 28
About the Author
Kevin Powers is the author of The Yellow Birds, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and was a National Book Award Finalist, as well as Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting, a collection of poetry. He was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University, and holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry. He served in the US Army in 2004 and 2005 in Iraq, where he was deployed as a machine gunner in Mosul and Tal Afar.
Author: Kevin Powers
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 04/30/2013
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780316219341
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.5
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 156980 / Yellow Birds
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 05/05/2013 pg. 28
About the Author
Kevin Powers is the author of The Yellow Birds, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and was a National Book Award Finalist, as well as Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting, a collection of poetry. He was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University, and holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry. He served in the US Army in 2004 and 2005 in Iraq, where he was deployed as a machine gunner in Mosul and Tal Afar.
Description
Finalist for the National Book Award, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive in Iraq. "The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. Bound together since basic training when Bartle makes a promise to bring Murphy safely home, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for. In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that press in on every side: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him and Bartle takes actions he could never have imagined. With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel that is destined to become a classic.
Author: Kevin Powers
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 04/30/2013
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780316219341
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.5
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 156980 / Yellow Birds
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 05/05/2013 pg. 28
About the Author
Kevin Powers is the author of The Yellow Birds, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and was a National Book Award Finalist, as well as Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting, a collection of poetry. He was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University, and holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry. He served in the US Army in 2004 and 2005 in Iraq, where he was deployed as a machine gunner in Mosul and Tal Afar.
Author: Kevin Powers
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 04/30/2013
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780316219341
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.5
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 156980 / Yellow Birds
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 05/05/2013 pg. 28
About the Author
Kevin Powers is the author of The Yellow Birds, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and was a National Book Award Finalist, as well as Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting, a collection of poetry. He was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University, and holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry. He served in the US Army in 2004 and 2005 in Iraq, where he was deployed as a machine gunner in Mosul and Tal Afar.
