Dory is a 12 year old boy in Sedluk, Alaska circa 1941. He spends his days shooting geese with his .410 rifle, exploring rock formations, or hunting seals with Bakutan, a silent elder Eskimo when he wasn’t at the schoolhouse. But that was all about change after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Dory tells his first person story about how his simple days as a curious boy turn into tribulations of war until the day he becomes a part of it himself. Genuinely heartbreaking and an unfortunately realistic fiction novel. ( )