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      The Purple Heart

      by Marc Talbert
      Published
      Aug 2000
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      148
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      This is an Authors Guild/BIP title. Please use Authors Guild/BIP specs. Author's bio: Marc Talbert has written many books for young readers, several of them published in seven foreign countries. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Tesuque, New Mexico. Description: Wounded. That must make my father a hero, thinks Luke Canvin. When his father arrives home from Vietnam, he is silent, tearful, and tired. This is not what Luke pictures a hero to be.

      How did his father earn his Purple Heart? Luke becomes convinced his father's Purple Heart holds the answers to the questions he can not bring himself to ask.

      The costs of pride, dignity, honesty, and humility become apparent as Luke and his father struggle to rebuild their relationship and learn, in the process, a new definition of courage.

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      Genres

      General Fiction

      Age Level

      Kids (12 & Under) Kids: Middle Grade

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      Nov 1993 Avon ISBN 0380719851
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      Aug 2000 iUniverse ISBN 0595097715
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      Feb 1992 Willa Perlman Books ISBN 0060204281
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      Nov 1993 Turtleback Books ISBN 0785714103
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      Aug 2000 Turtleback Books ISBN 0613940334
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