When Lucky Linderman's gramdma died of colon cancer, her last words were "Lucky, you have to rescue my Harry! He's still in the jungle being tortured by those___ Gooks!" His grandfather never returned from Viet Nam. He is MIA and the familly displays the POW/MIA flag and symbols proudly. Lucky has nightmares attempting to rescue his grandpa and throughout elementary school every time his went to the library he would open the World Book Encyclopedia U-V Volume to page 372 "The Viet Nam War." Throughout middle school he read other Viet Nam related books and learned that "Charlie" was just a nickname for the enemy, the Viet Kong, or the VC, the communist soldiers fighting for North Viet Nam to take over our allies in South Viet Nam. He read all the articles and letters in the attic and believes that his grandmother's activities in the POW/MIA movement made her as much a hero as his grandpa. Lucky has been bullied by Nader McMillan for 8 long years, since he was 7. The bullying has escalated. After an incident at the pool, Lucky's mom takes Lucky to Arizona to spend several weeks with her brother and his wife. His dad is a turtle and his mom is a squid, and Lucky sees and hears ants. The ANTics provide outstanding comic relief to this insightful story of bullying, family dynamics, respect, and the horrors of war.
Caution: inappropriate language!
9 million U. S. soldiers served in Viet Nam.
58,000 U. S. service men and women were killed in Viet Nam.
300, 000 were wounded.
2,300 were missing.
Gateway Award Preliminary Nominee 2013-14
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