# Boy at War

**Author:** Harry Mazer
**Grade range:** Grades 4–6
**Age range:** 9–11
**First published:** 2001
**Page count:** 104
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780606255110`
**ISBN-10:** `0689841604`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/boy-at-war
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

While fishing with his friends off Honolulu on December 7, 1941, teenaged Adam is caught in the midst of the Japanese attack and through the chaos of the subsequent days tries to find his father, a naval officer who was serving on the U.S.S. Arizona when the bombs fell.

## Themes

- world war, 1939-1945
- causes
- history

## Where this book is assigned

### Nēnē Award (Hawai'i)

- **recommended** · 4th grade · Hawaii — [source: Nēnē Award (Hawai'i) — Hawaii's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 4-6): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record.](https://www.neneaward.org/winners.html)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Hawaii — [source: Nēnē Award (Hawai'i) — Hawaii's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 4-6): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record.](https://www.neneaward.org/winners.html)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Hawaii — [source: Nēnē Award (Hawai'i) — Hawaii's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 4-6): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record.](https://www.neneaward.org/winners.html)

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