Purple Heart by Patricia McCormick

Author:Patricia McCormick
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Brain damage, Fiction, Middle East, Memory, Iraq War, General, Diseases, 2003-, Social Issues, Historical - Military & Wars, Health & Daily Living, Juvenile Fiction, Violence, Medical fiction, Historical, Social Issues - Violence, People & Places, Street children, Action & Adventure, Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9), Action & Adventure - General, Military & Wars, 2003, People & Places - Middle East, Soldiers, Hospitals, Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 9780061730917
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2009-08-21T07:00:00+00:00

MATT WALKED MECHANICALLY IN THE DIRECTION FROM which he’d come. Then stopped at the juncture of two hallways. His head was killing him and he had no idea which way to go. There were signs in Arabic but no English subtitles and his sense of direction utterly failed him. He looked for landmarks—a potted plant, a clock, something he’d passed on the way to Fuchs’s office—but he saw nothing except miles of thickly veined marble stretching in either direction.

He turned right, walked for a while, then stopped, turned around and went back the way he’d come. When he got to the intersection of the hallway that Fuchs’s office was on, he stopped again, then decided to continue down that hallway in the opposite direction.

Finally, he heard the faint thump of the boom box and knew he was getting close to the soldiers painting the World Trade Center mural. He rounded a corner and saw the soldier who’d given him the better-you-than-me look. It seemed to Matt like he’d been wandering the halls for hours, but there was the same guy, eating the same bag of Doritos.

The guy nudged one of his buddies and said something to the group. The others dropped their tools and stood at attention, their hands held in a rigid salute, their gaze fixed on something outside the window. As Matt drew closer he saw what they were looking at: a black body bag being lifted into a transport.

Matt stopped, brought his hand to his brow, and watched. A sickening sensation came over him. The half-full body bag he’d seen earlier: It was Ali’s.

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