01285cam a2200217 4500 500551043 TxAuBib 20210421120000.0 010307s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781565548664 paperback 1565548663 paperback TxAuBib Rice, James. Victor Lopez at the Alamo. Gretna : Pelican Publishing Company, 2001. 125 p. Like many young people his age, Victor Lopez thinks about the lives of the soldiers he sees marching past his house in Mexico. They look dusty and tired, carrying their heavy equipment as best they can. Victor does not want to go with the, He has to help his mother with the planting and the animals, but the soldiers need him to fight the battles in Texas. Only fourteen years old, Victor Lopez is forced to march off to war, leaving behind all he knows and loves. His journey with the army takes him all the way to one of the most famous battles in history; the Alamo. Along the way, he learns the value of friendship as well as the cost of war. 20210421. Alamo (San Antonio, Tex) Siege, 1836 Juvenile literature. TXHAM