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category: Young Adult Fiction
published: Jan 1998
ISBN:9781554695560
publisher: Orca Book Publishers

War of the Eagles

by Eric Walters

tagged: military & wars, friendship, prejudice & racism
Description

During WWII, Jed’s English father serves as a fighter pilot overseas, while Jed and his mother move back to her Tsimshian community on Canada's west coast. When the military sets up a naval base in town, Jed is hired to help out, honored it seems, for both his father's bravery and his own native skills as a hunter. Presented with a military jacket, Jed finds an allegiance to his country and a pride in his mixed heritage that he's never felt before.
But one day Jed's world is shattered. His best friend Tadashi, along with the other members of the nearby Japanese village, are declared enemy aliens and told to prepare to leave their homes. Now Jed must ask himself where his allegiance really belongs…to his country's rigid code, or to the truth that is buried in his Tsimshian soul.
War of the Eagles is the first of two books in a series.
Book two is Caged Eagles.

About the Author

Eric Walters

ERIC WALTERS, a former elementary school teacher, is one of Canada’s most popular authors for children and young adults. He has written more than seventy books that together have won more than a hundred awards, and talks to hundreds of young people in schools and libraries across the country each year. He is also the founder of Creation of Hope, which provides care for orphans in the Makueni district of Kenya, and lives in Mississauga, Ontario. Visit him online at www.ericwalters.net.

Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
Age:
12
Grade:
8 to 12
Reading age:
12
Awards
  • Long-listed, SYRCA Snow Willow nominee
  • , Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice Awards - Snow Willow
  • , Young Readers' Choice Book Awards of British Columbia (YRCABC) Red Cedar Book Awards
  • Short-listed, Red Cedar nominee
  • Winner, Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards - Children’s Picture Book
  • Commended, New York Public Library (NYPL) - Books for the Teen Age
  • Commended, New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age
  • Winner, Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award
  • Commended, American Booksellers Association (ABA) Pick List
  • Short-listed, Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction nominee
  • Commended, CLA Honour Book
  • Short-listed, Canadian Children's Book Centre (CCBC) Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People
  • Short-listed, IODE Book Award - National Chapter nominee
  • Short-listed, The National Chapter of Canada IODE Violet Downey Book Award
  • Short-listed, Red Maple nominee
  • , Forest of Reading Red Maple Award
  • Commended, CCBC Our Choice
  • Short-listed, Rocky Mountain Book Award nominee
  • Commended, ABA Pick of the List
  • Commended, Canadian Children's Book Centre (CCBC) Our Choice
  • Short-listed, Rocky Mountain Book Award (RMBA)
  • Commended, Canadian Library Association (CLA) Book of the Year for Children - Honour Book

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