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Nine Degrees North

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Description:"Nine Degrees North" tells the story of a group of teens who, with their families, are stationed on the tiny island of Kwajalein, a U.S missile test site in the Pacific's Marshall Islands, in 1969. Located "nine degrees north" of the equator, this tiny spit of land (three miles long and one-half mile wide) seems an idyllic paradise in which to grow up, with its remoteness and laid-back island vibe, year-round tropical climate, stretches of sandy beaches, and abundance of recreational diversions like native dancing, surfing, water-skiing and snorkeling, but fifteen-year old Carrie Conroy and her friends discover that the island has a dark history, one that the adults carefully avoid talking about. As they search for the truth about what really happened to the native Marshallese Islanders in the post-World War II years, they uncover even more unsettling mysteries as to the nature of the government's current mission on Kwajalein! Unbeknownst to the teens, however, their sleuthing has aroused the suspicions of someone with an interest in keeping these revelations quiet, and who has his own dangerous and dark secrets he would stop at nothing to protect.The island was the site of Japanese-American conflict in the Pacific theater in WW II, and has been a testing facility for anti-ballistic missiles throughout and following the Cold War. Military and non-military personnel, with their families, continue to deploy there in support of the various ongoing strategic initiatives of the base. This compelling story makes the reader want to dig deeper into the history tomes!The teens' high-minded outrage and a quest for the truth drive the underlying and serious thread of the narrative, but there are ever so many wonderful and compelling side stories and themes along the way! The heartbreaking loss of a sibling to violence...the uprooting of a family for the career advancement of a parent...family conflict...first love...peer pressure, drugs, alcohol and sexual awakening during a time of dramatically-evolving cultural norms...opposition to the war in Vietnam...coming face to face with evil, real danger and intrigue for the first time...the action never stops, nor does the thoughtful, guiding commentary of the narrator. Though the teenage protagonists and the adult characters who inhabit the pages of this fast-paced novel."Nine Degrees North" is a "couldn't put it down" read, with so much going on in the lives of the teens that a Young Adult audience will find it exciting, historically interesting, and emotionally relevant. It will leave an older reader not only thoroughly entertained but also fondly re-connected with his or her fifteen-year-old self, and that time when all of us are striving awkwardly (or with great finesse-depending on the tint of one's backward-looking lenses) to navigate the complex state of being that is called "growing up".We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Nine Degrees North. To get started finding Nine Degrees North, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 314

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Palm Avenue Publishing

Release: 2013

ISBN: 0615761097

Description: "Nine Degrees North" tells the story of a group of teens who, with their families, are stationed on the tiny island of Kwajalein, a U.S missile test site in the Pacific's Marshall Islands, in 1969. Located "nine degrees north" of the equator, this tiny spit of land (three miles long and one-half mile wide) seems an idyllic paradise in which to grow up, with its remoteness and laid-back island vibe, year-round tropical climate, stretches of sandy beaches, and abundance of recreational diversions like native dancing, surfing, water-skiing and snorkeling, but fifteen-year old Carrie Conroy and her friends discover that the island has a dark history, one that the adults carefully avoid talking about. As they search for the truth about what really happened to the native Marshallese Islanders in the post-World War II years, they uncover even more unsettling mysteries as to the nature of the government's current mission on Kwajalein! Unbeknownst to the teens, however, their sleuthing has aroused the suspicions of someone with an interest in keeping these revelations quiet, and who has his own dangerous and dark secrets he would stop at nothing to protect.The island was the site of Japanese-American conflict in the Pacific theater in WW II, and has been a testing facility for anti-ballistic missiles throughout and following the Cold War. Military and non-military personnel, with their families, continue to deploy there in support of the various ongoing strategic initiatives of the base. This compelling story makes the reader want to dig deeper into the history tomes!The teens' high-minded outrage and a quest for the truth drive the underlying and serious thread of the narrative, but there are ever so many wonderful and compelling side stories and themes along the way! The heartbreaking loss of a sibling to violence...the uprooting of a family for the career advancement of a parent...family conflict...first love...peer pressure, drugs, alcohol and sexual awakening during a time of dramatically-evolving cultural norms...opposition to the war in Vietnam...coming face to face with evil, real danger and intrigue for the first time...the action never stops, nor does the thoughtful, guiding commentary of the narrator. Though the teenage protagonists and the adult characters who inhabit the pages of this fast-paced novel."Nine Degrees North" is a "couldn't put it down" read, with so much going on in the lives of the teens that a Young Adult audience will find it exciting, historically interesting, and emotionally relevant. It will leave an older reader not only thoroughly entertained but also fondly re-connected with his or her fifteen-year-old self, and that time when all of us are striving awkwardly (or with great finesse-depending on the tint of one's backward-looking lenses) to navigate the complex state of being that is called "growing up".We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Nine Degrees North. To get started finding Nine Degrees North, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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