P.O.W.: Two Wars. Two Americans. Held Behind Enemy Lines.

by Candy J. Cooper

112 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 2011

About the author

Candy J. Cooper is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting. She has been a staff writer for four newspapers, including the The Detroit Free Press and the San Francisco Examiner. Her work has appeared in the The New York Times, The Columbia Journalism Review and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among other publications. She has written several nonfiction series books for the classroom for Scholastic, and her essay on stepfamilies is part of an anthology, My Father Married Your Mother: Dispatches from the Blended Family, published by W. W. Norton.

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Reviews

[ChelseaZ · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read the book P.O.W. by Candy J. Cooper the genre was non-fiction.It was published in 2012. I thought this book was OK because i liked the way that it was setup from two different perspectives, but i thought it was kinda boring. The two main characters were Everett and Shoshana. Everett was a man that was in the American army who got his plane shot down by the enemy alliances, and then taken in prisoner for years until the war stopped. Shoshana was a woman who was in the army and went to invade Iraq, while in Iraq her army truck got blown up and she had to surrender to Iraq. They took her in as a prisoner and she stayed there for months moving back and forth between jails during the war.The settings are Iraq and North Vietnam. I said that the book was ok because on pg. 20 it says' "the U.S had been edging toward war in vietnam for a decade."I felt that that was boring.I would recommend this book to kids from 4th grade and up because it wasn't hard to read.

[Troy Fanton]

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