Fallen Angels (Myers novel)

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Fallen Angels is a novel that was written by Walter Dean Myers about a group of young Americans in the Vietnam War. The characters of Richie Perry, Lobel, Johnson, Brunner, and Peewee are all in Vietnam. They came there for different reasons, but now they share a single dream - getting out alive. The novel deals with issues of race relations in the army during the Vietnam War. It also deals very much with the pains of war, especially for those of a young soldier.

Fallen Angels won the 1989 Coretta Scott King Award.

An edition was published by Scholastic Press in 1988 (ISBN 0-590-40942-5).

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