War Drama; Young Adult Literature
Sometimes genres are tricky with books, but this book ain't one of those. It's written toward a young adult audience—a lot of the characters are teens themselves and the language is pretty straightforward—so it definitely falls into the young adult lit category. And while war dramas often feature, well, war more prominently than this book does, it's still a war drama because pretty much everything that happens transpires because of the war. So leave the blood and guts and grown-ups on the sidelines, and dive on into this young adult war drama, Shmoopsters.