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PenCraft Award Winner - Young Adult Fiction Pickpocketing is not honest, but it is lucrative. That is, until 17-year-old Charles Main gets caught, and the judge gives the vagrant a choice: go to prison or join the Army. In basic training, he is amazed (and confused) by all the people who actually volunteered to be here. But he soon befriends Carrie Borden, one of the first female cavalry scouts in the U.S. Army, who helps him understand what selfless really means. Deployed together in the fight against ISIS, their platoon quickly gains a reputation of mythological proportions. Everything changes, though, when Charles witnesses one of his leaders make a fatal mistake on an otherwise impeccable mission. Caught trying to contain the messy aftermath, he finds that being honest and telling the truth isn't always the same thing.

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Smithson's brilliant new novel is almost impossible to put down. --Patricia McCormick, two-time National Book Award finalist and author of SOLD, PURPLE HEART, and NEVER FALL DOWN. 10 KLICKS SOUTH OF WHISKEY is more than just another war novel. It's about understanding the responsibility we have to others--and to our deeper selves. --Joseph Bruchac, acclaimed Abenaki poet and author of CODE TALKER, MARCH TOWARD THE THUNDER, and TALKING LEAVES

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Ryan Smithson joined the Army Corps of Engineers following 9/11 and was deployed to Iraq in 2004. Upon returning home, he began writing his memoir, Ghosts of War: The True Story of a 19-Year-Old GI (HarperCollins, 2009), which was nominated as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. It is required reading in high schools and colleges across the country, and was adapted for the stage by the Griffin Theatre in Chicago.

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