War Stories by Gordon Korman

War Stories by Gordon Korman 231 pages Twelve-year-old Trevor Firestone loves playing war-based video games and he idolizes his great-grandfather Jacob who came home from World War II a celebrated hero; now ninety-three-year-old Jacob wants to retrace his journey in memory and reality and return to the small French village that his unit liberated, and Trevor is going with him -- but not everyone in the town wants Jacob to come, and Trevor is going to learn an important lesson: real war is not a video game, and valor and heroism can be very murky concepts. I was not a fan of this book. It is a Mark Twain nominee for 4-6 graders but I feel like it was appropriate for that age. I felt it was too graphic with the violent details for elementary students. It did tell a neat story about the connection between a young boy and his great-grandfather and the boy learns a valuable lesson that video games are not the same as real war.