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Cracker!: The Best Dog in Vietnam

Cracker!: The Best Dog in Vietnam

Kadohata, Cynthia

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ISBN10: 1416906371
ISBN13: 9781416906377
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: Feb 6 2007
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.86
Height: 1.18 Width: 6.34 Depth: 8.34
Language: English
Awards: Alabama Camellia Award, Buckeye Children's Book Award, California Young Reader Medal, Colorado Blue Spruce Award, Colorado Children's Book Award, Cybils, Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award, Golden Sower Award, Grand Canyon Reader Award, Iowa Teen Award, Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award, Massachusetts Children's Book Award, Nene Award, Nene Award, Nene Award, Nevada Young Readers' Award, North Carolina Children's Book Award, Parents Choice Award (Spring) (1998-2007), Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award, Sequoyah Book Awards, South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award, Truman Readers Award, West Virginia Children's Book Award, William Allen White Childens Book Award
CRACKER IS ONE OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY'S MOST VALUABLE WEAPONS:

a German shepherd trained to sniff out bombs, traps, and the enemy. The fate of entire platoons rests on her keen sense of smell. She's a Big Deal, and she likes it that way. Sometimes Cracker remembers when she was younger, and her previous owner would feed her hot dogs and let her sleep in his bed. That was nice, too.

Rick Hanski is headed to Vietnam. There, he's going to whip the world and prove to his family and his sergeant -- and everyone else who didn't think he was cut out for war -- wrong. But sometimes Rick can't help but wonder that maybe everyone else is right. Maybe he should have just stayed at home and worked in his dad's hardware store.

When Cracker is paired with Rick, she isn't so sure about this new owner. He's going to have to prove himself to her before she's going to prove herself to him. They need to be friends before they can be a team, and they have to be a team if they want to get home alive.

Told in part through the uncanny point of view of a German shepherd, Cracker! is an action-packed glimpse into the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a dog and her handler. It's an utterly unique powerhouse of a book by the Newbery Medal-winning author of Kira-Kira.

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