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If You Knew Him, Please Write Me: Children’s Books about the U.S. in the Vietnam War

If You Knew Him, Please Write Me* By Terry Farish Reprinted from School Library Journal/ November 1988 Novels provide clues for children and teens about the war in Vietnam. ______________________________________________________ *message left beside a name on the Vietnam Memorial, Washington D.C.
Children of War

“In what language is this holy? ” Naomi Shihab Nye writes in her poem “All Things Not Considered.” Children of War is my reading essay featured in School Library Journal about novels, poems, and memoir for young people on war, including Nye’s 19 Varieties of Gazelle.