Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor (ALAN GRATZ - YA) Fiction Three pivotal days in 1863

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Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor (ALAN GRATZ - YA) Fiction Three pivotal days in 1863December 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. With their dads stationed at the Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii, the boys get to soak up the sunshine while writing and drawing their own comic books. World War II might be raging overseas, but so far America has stayed out of the fight. There's nothing to fear, right? December 7th, 1941: Everything implodes. Frank and Stanley are touring a battleship when Japanese planes zoom overhead,