Sentries
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ISBN: 002770100X / Publisher: Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books, January 1986
Constituting a plea for peace, the struggles of four disparate teenagers are interwoven with the lives of three handicapped foreign war veterans
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Nuclear disaster and human vulnerability interweave in the lives of four young people, an Ojibway Indian, an illegal Mexican migrant worker, a rock musician, and a sheep rancher's daughter with the lives of three veterans of past wars.They are four different people with four separate lives: Sue, a young woman distanced from her native roots; David, a traveler in search of a dream; Laura, a student seeking her parents' understanding; and Peter, a rock star struggling to create the perfect sound. One looming fate threatens them all. And everything they love may be taken away in one fleeting second....
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