The Champion

by Maurice Gee

Book Overview

During World War II, Rex, a young New Zealand boy, finds his life irrevocably changed by the arrival of a wounded American soldier, Jackson Coop, an African-American private with a hatred for war, who... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671865617
• ISBN13: 9780671865610
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

Rex

This story begins in the middle of world war ll. Rex is a 6 year old boy that likes his bb gun and has made a picture of hittler and a Japamize jeneral. Rex finds our that they are spondering a wonded soljior from America. Rex is so excited that he made a banner that said that they were glad to have him at their home. When the soljior gets to their house Rex find out he is a black man and that he is afraid of the war and hates all the killing. latter on Rex finds out that it dose not matter if he is black or white but what is on the inside. When the wounded soljior goes back to the war Rex has just started to be friends with him and then he has to go back. Rex never sees the soljior ever agian and never hears from him eather.

It is written so younger people can understand it.

I am 12 years old and we had to read an older book and I read the champion and really enjoyed it.I think that if you enjoy a good read you will like this book.It is written really well.