McCormick, Patricia,  1956- <br/><br/>
Purple Heart / 
by Patricia McCormick. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Balzer + Bray,  c2009. 
 - 199 p. ;  21 cm. 
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<br/><br/> While recuperating in a Baghdad hospital from a traumatic brain injury sustained during the Iraq War, eighteen-year-old soldier Matt Duffy struggles to recall what happened to him and how it relates to his ten-year-old friend, Ali. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0061730920 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Iraq War, 2003-2011--Fiction.<br/>Soldiers--Fiction.<br/>Brain--Wounds and injuries--Fiction.<br/>Hospitals--Fiction.<br/>Memory--Fiction.<br/>Street children--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PZ7.M13679  / Pur 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>[Fic]