{"id":2079,"date":"2006-05-01T22:55:09","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T02:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:54:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:54:34","slug":"a-boy-no-more-by-harry-mazer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/a-boy-no-more-by-harry-mazer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Boy No More by Harry Mazer [in Bloomsbury Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2006\/05\/Boy-No-More.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-30535\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2006\/05\/Boy-No-More.jpg\" alt=\"Boy No More\" width=\"336\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>The return in a new paperback edition of the second of a resonating historical trilogy that follows the young life of Adam Pelko. In <em>A Boy at War, <\/em>Adam is a high school student who experiences first-hand the horrors of the attack on Pearl Harbor, losing his father and trying to understand his own contradictory feelings toward his Japanese American best friend.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>A Boy No More<\/em>, Adam has moved to California, where the war is not nearly as far away as he thought, as he travels to nearby Manzanar prison camp to deliver a message to his best friend Davi\u2019s family. [On the book\u2019s final page, Mazer adds a new author\u2019s note that draws pointed parallels to the post-9\/11 round-ups of Arab and Muslim Americans to the Japanese American internment experience.]\n<p>In the final installment, <em>Heroes Don\u2019t Run<\/em>, Adam enlists and is sent to the front, still in touch with Davi, who has also enlisted to prove his American loyalty even as his family remains locked behind barbed wire.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: &#8220;In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Month: A Literary Survey,&#8221; <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, May\/June 2006<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade, Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2006 (new paperback edition)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2080\" title=\"boy-no-more\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/04\/boy-no-more.jpg\" alt=\"boy-no-more\" width=\"128\" height=\"191\" \/>The return in a new paperback edition of the second of a resonating historical trilogy that follows the young life of Adam Pelko. 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[On the book\u2019s final page, Mazer adds a new author\u2019s note that draws pointed parallels to the post-9\/11 round-ups of Arab and Muslim Americans to the Japanese American internment experience.]<\/p>\n<p>In the final installment, <em>Heroes Don\u2019t Run<\/em>, Adam enlists and is sent to the front, still in touch with Davi, who has also enlisted to prove his American loyalty even as his family remains locked behind barbed wire.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: &#8220;In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Month: A Literary Survey,&#8221; <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, May\/June 2006<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade, Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2006 (new paperback edition)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,426,30,6535,31],"tags":[1968,6608,4066,11,337,720,28,29,45],"class_list":["post-2079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","category-japanese-american","category-middle-grade-readers","category-repost","category-young-adult-readers","tag-bloomsbury-review","tag-bookdragon","tag-boy-no-more","tag-friendship","tag-harry-mazer","tag-japanese-american-imprisonment-during-wwii","tag-politics","tag-race-racism","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Boy No More by Harry Mazer [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/a-boy-no-more-by-harry-mazer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Boy No More by Harry Mazer [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The return in a new paperback edition of the second of a resonating historical trilogy that follows the young life of Adam Pelko. 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