Heroes Don’t Run: A Novel of the Pacific War.
By Harry Mazer.

This book is about a boy named Adam Pelko who joins the Marines. His Father fought at Pearl Harbor and was killed. His Grandfather fought and was wounded in World War I. He lost his arm when he was wounded. Adam lied to his mom and said he was going to visit his Grandpa, but he was really going to join the Marines. Once he was in the Marines, he never thought it would be so rough.
In the morning, you would only have 15 minutes to shower, shave and be in line ready to run, march, or drill. Every now and then, Adam would write a letter to his best friend, Davi, at Pearl Harbor or his mom back home at Bakersfield, California. You would have to be up at 5 o'clock in the morning every day.. Every night, when lights went out you had to go to sleep. Adam said that boot camp was the hardest thing he had ever done in his life. They had punishments that you could not believe.
In December of 1944, they were issued rifles: World War I, .30 caliber 1903 Springfield's. By the end of the month they had moved out to the ranges. The targets were up to 500 yards away. By the next year they were posted for advanced training otherwise known as FMF, Fleet Marine Force, at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Camp Lejeune is a combat training camp. After they were there for a few days they were issued new rifles .30 caliber semiautomatic MIs, bayonets, hand grenades, and KA-BARS, otherwise known as, the marine fighting knife. Adam and the other troops are sent overseas to Okinawa the spring of 1945. You will find that this book has a lot of information about World War II.

This was reviewed by Cameron.

This is a site for kids about World War II.
http://www.kidskonnect.com/content/view/288/27/
This site is about the United States Marine Corps.
http://www.marines.com/