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No Surrender Soldier
Christine Kohler
Is it courage? Or revenge?
Photo courtesy of Micah Schmidt
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Young Adult
ISBN: 9781440565618
UPC: 045079565616
$17.99 (CAN $19.99)
Hardcover
5½ x 8½, 272 pages
World Rights
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Christine Kohler
Ballinger, TX | ChristineKohlerBooks​.com
Christine Kohler is the author
of sixteen instructional and children’s
books about music and
nature. An Air Force bride who
has lived all over the world, she
believes that place is as important
as any character. No Surrender
Soldier is her debut novel.
• Based on a strange piece of history—the case of a World War II
Japanese soldier who believes the war is still going on is discovered
hiding in the woods in Guam
• The 15-year-old Japanese American boy who finds the old soldier must
struggle with the impulse of revenge and the morality of compassion—
in the knowledge of how a crime against his mother by Japanese soldiers
has haunted their family
• Like A Separate Peace, provokes discussion about what manhood and
courage really mean
Growing up on Guam in 1972, fifteen-year-old Kiko is beset by worries:
He’s never kissed a girl, the popular guys get all the attention at school—
but the worst part is the serious problems at home. His older brother is
missing in Vietnam, his grandfather is losing it to dementia, and he just
learned that his mother was raped by a Japanese soldier during World War
II. It all comes together when he discovers an old man, a Japanese soldier,
hiding in the jungle behind his house. It’s not the same man who raped his
mother, but, in his rage, Kiko cares only about protecting his family and
avenging his mom—no matter what it takes. And so, a shy, peaceable boy
begins to plan a murder. But how far will Kiko go to prove to himself that
he’s a man? Based on a true incident in history, No Surrender Soldier is the
story of a boy grappling with ancient questions of courage and manhood
before he can move on.
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