The Last Summer of the Death Warriors
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780545151337 (0545151333)
Publish date: March 1st 2010
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
Pages no: 344
Edition language: English
This book is very well written and deals with some pretty adult things for a young adult novel. The characters are interesting and have a lot of depth and the plot is really good. The main characters are D.Q., a 17 year old boy fighting cancer, and Pancho, another 17 year old boy who was recently or...
Based on The Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote de La Mancha, which I've never read, and therefor don't feel equipped to discuss.Two teen boys, dealing with overwhelming circumstances, look for a way to carry on.In contrast to The Marbury Lens, nothing very dramatic takes place. Pancho has lost his mothe...
This is one of the books I read to help with selecting next year's Gateway Award nominees. I did really enjoy it. Didn't think I would, again, like many of the titles on the list this year, it is not my normal type of book. But I really liked the story, and got involved with the characters. At f...
4.5 starsWhen Pancho's father and older sister both die a few months apart from one another, Pancho is sent to orphanage St. Anthony's. Pancho isn't interested in making friends with the other boys, intent on getting justice for his sister, who he believes was murdered. But oddball D.Q. is determine...
I respect the themes Francisco X. Stork explores in this novel, namely that this book is a modern day version of the film Boys Town, the story of Father Flanagan and those boys, and I especially liked the concept of the death warriors…feeling gratitude and loving life at all times and in all circums...
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