And One for All - Hardcover

Nelson, Theresa

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ISBN 10: 0531058042 ISBN 13: 9780531058046

Publisher: Orchard Books, 1989

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During the Vietnam era the close trio of Geraldine, her older brother Wing, and their friend Sam is torn apart by Wing's unexpected enlistment in the Marines and Sam's trek to Washington for an Easter 1968 peace march

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Years ago Geraldine, her older brother, Wing, and his best friend, Sam, swore eternal friendship and everlasting loyalty to each other.

Now it's 1967 and Wing, a senior, thinks the Marines and Vietnam have more to offer than school. But Sam would rather march for peace. Can Geraldine help them keep their pledge alive?

From School Library Journal:

Grade 6-10 Through the impressionable eyes of seventh-grader Geraldine Brennan, Nelson evokes the tension and divisiveness of the homefront during the Vietnam War. Geraldine watches her older brother, Wing, struggle with school problems. He celebrates his 18th birthday by dropping out of school and joining the Marines. His letters home from bootcamp and then Vietnam reflect optimism increasingly tinged with anxiety and doubts. Meanwhile, the peace activism of his best friend, Sam Daily, has ostracized him from the Brennan family. When Wing is killed in action, Geraldine blames Sam and hops a bus to Washington, D.C., where she confronts him among peace protestors at the foot of the Washington Monument. Finally, her grief and fury give way to understanding that Sam was always on Wing's side in trying to end the war. Like Nelson's other sensitively drawn young protagonists (Elvira in The 25? Miracle Bradbury, 1986, and Walter in Devil Storm Orchard, 1987), Geraldine challenges injustice in an adult world and makes an independent statement of her own. She persuades her parents that friendship supercedes politics, and grief over Wing's death is shared by all. Her coming of age between 1966 and 1968 parallels a nation coming to terms with the military demands and human sacrifice of the Vietnam War. Set in the wooded beauty of upstate New York, this novel is a well-crafted story of friendship and family relationships and an accurate emotional barometer of the times. Gerry Larson, Chewning Junior High School, Durham, N.C.
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