When I was in high school, I had to read The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien during the summer. I was surprised by how much I liked it since it was a war story and I was mainly reading girl drama books at the time. Since then I've always been interested in books about war, we forget that there are teenagers fighting in wars all over the world, and they should have a voice. Walter Dean Myers covers our generation's war in Iraq in his book Sunrise over Fallujah. He shows us the fear and uncertainty along with the bravery and friendship. The book follows Robin "Birdy" Perry from his station in Kuwait to the battlefields in Iraq.
The novel was exciting and had a really good pace, it moved along nicely, but didn't go so fast that the characters didn't get to develop. My only compliant is that there were a lot of characters, and I quickly lost track of who was who unless it was the main three soldiers. If you read this book and liked it, you should also try Fallen Angels, which is Myers' novel about the Vietnam War.
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