- Genre:young adult fiction
- Sub-genre:Action & Adventure / Pirates
- Age Range (years):13 and up
- Language:English
- Pages:308
- eBook ISBN:9781483536378
Book details
Overview
Soldier Boy Hanigan is a military brat on a mission to grow up and either farm in Illinois or join the choir in a French Cathedral. Mostly he longs for distance between himself and his father and for any world outside the fences of an Air Force Base. A story of race relations in the military of the sixties, Soldier Boy Hanigan touches on complex issues through the eyes of a child.
Description
Growing up in Illinois and dreaming of driving a tractor some day, seven year old Soldier Boy's world changes when his father is reassigned to an Air Force Base forty miles northwest of Paris, France.