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Gr 5–8—Nathan Mercer has returned from a fifth combat tour with the marines, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and struggling to readjust to life with his son, 13-year-old Rebel, and Aunt Birdie. Both Rebel and Birdie recognize Nathan's volatile behavior, but neither realizes that he has been radicalized by white supremacist groups online. Rebel has trouble regulating his own stress and anger. When the teen commits a racist act that gets him expelled from school, Nathan takes them both to Oklahoma to join a white nationalist militia. Through Rebel's first-person na...Log In or Sign Up to Read More