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Author
Series
Katie Nash novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the hot Texas army base she calls home, Katie spends the lazy days of her summer waiting: waiting to grow up; waiting for Dickie Mack to fall in love with her; waiting for her breasts to blossom; waiting for the beatings to stop. Since their mother died, Katie and her older sister, Diane, have struggled to understand their increasingly distant, often violent father. While Diane escapes into the arms of her boyfriend, Katie hides in her room or...
2) Coming home
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the emotions of a young boy as he waits at an airport for a family member to return home from serving in the military.
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young boy waits with both excitement and apprehension for his father to disembark from the aircraft carrier returning to port after many months at sea.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A little girl's father helps her get over her fear of the dark before he goes off to war, and she uses the stars they painted on her ceiling to remind her of him while he is away.
Author
Series
Handmaid's tale volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic--and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this stunning sequel. Fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At the crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
163 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her brother is sent to fight in Vietnam, twelve-year-old Jamie begins to reconsider the army world that she has grown up in.
Author
Publisher
Picarona
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
1a. edición.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
Español
Description
When the war is over, a boy who misses his soldier father wishes on what he thinks is a star to see him again, but the light he wishes on is actually a firefly who cannot fly, but is so impressed she goes in search of the missing father.
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