Soldier Boys Book Report

Soldier Boys is a fiction book published in 2001 by Dean Hughes. This book shows the viewpoint of two boys, one German and one American. Dieter, the German boy, is only 10 years old and this book tells the story of how he ended up going from a little kid to a man fighting for his country. Spencer, the American boy, is only 15 years old and he is going to fight for America to impress the girl that he likes named LuAnn. This story takes place during WW2 before and during The Battle of the Bulge. Dieter is a young, very brave boy that wants to make his family proud. He is very courageous throughout the story beginning with hm conquering his fear to get in the cold water. He is very proud of his country and is passionate about serving for it. When Dieter finally gets to go on a march he meets a guy named Schaefer. The guy did not talk much to Dieter, but they were in the same foxhole so they began talking. …show more content…
After some training both of them wanted to go home because it was hard and they were home sick. They kept each other going and ended up taking their first jump out of an airplane together. Spencer tried to get a bus home to see his family for Christmas, but couldn’t. He missed his family a lot and he had just found out that his crush, LuAnn, got engaged. That hurt him at first, but then he realized that he knew that was going to happen and he figured out that the real reason he was serving for his country wasn’t all because of her. A couple of Spencer’s friends get killed when they were getting bombed, which is the climax because he was in serious danger of getting killed. Spencer and a few other men got ordered to raid a German village and Spencer kills a few German soldiers that were shooting at him. He threw a grenade in the room that they were in. Spencer’s battalion got ordered to retreat because they were getting shot at, but during this battle Spencer lost a lot of people that he met and grew close