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2) Walls
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the days before the treacherous overnight raising of the Berlin Wall, teenaged cousins Drew, an American army brat in West Berlin, and Matthias, a young communist in East Berlin, become wary friends on opposite sides of the Cold War. Interspersed throughout the story are captioned photographs from the era.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
On the last day of fifth grade, super-smart eleven-year-old Ginny learns that her father, who is a military ER doctor, is being deployed to Afghanistan, devastating news because they are already moving to another post in Maryland and Ginny depends on her father to help her manage her obsessions, panic attacks and general meltdowns; one of her obsessions is geographical facts, and somehow Ginny hopes to use her geographical knowledge to overcome her...
4) Coming home
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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.
9) Army brats
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When the Bailey family moves into an army base in Virginia there are a lot of adjustments to make; twelve-year-old Tom runs afoul of the base school bully, ten-year-old Charlotte finds herself trying too hard to make friends with the "cool" girls, and six-year-old Rosie is just being difficult as usual--but they come together to investigate a mysterious building full of weird cages, and uncover Fort Patrick's secrets.
10) Hazard
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Told in a series of reports to his therapist, Hazard is resentful about being forced into counseling after being suspended from his school football team for unsportsmanlike conduct, angry that his father has served four tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, angry that his father has lost a leg when an IED blew up--but as his therapy progresses he begins to process what has happened to him and his family, including his father's psychological trauma...
11) My red balloon
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First edition.
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.
12) Stars above us
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
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
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
1a. edición.
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.
14) Birdie's bargain
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Birdie has questions for God. For starters, why couldn't God roll history back to September 10, 2001, and fix things--so the next day was an ordinary sunny day and not the devastating lead-in to two wars? Daddy has already been to Iraq twice. Now he's going again, and Birdie is sure he'll die. At the very least, she won't see him again for a year, and everything will not be OK. (Why do grown-ups lie?) To save money, she, Mom, and baby Billy have moved...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Ever since Daddy returned from overseas, he's been different. At first, Butta Bean thinks it's his fault-that maybe his daddy doesn't love him anymore. But Mama explains that Daddy's mind is hurt from things that happened while he was away. When Mama takes them all to yoga class at their local YMCA, Daddy doesn't want to go at first, and Butta Bean thinks it looks weird. But as Daddy and Butta Bean get better at the yoga poses (Daddy says he's a...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Annabelle Louis is a military brat, and complete nerd who has always been homeschooled, but with her mother going on assignment in Afghanistan, she is going to have to attend middle school in Linden, New Jersey; her therapist suggests she try sports to make friends, and she creates a vlog, Daphne Doesn't, in which she makes fun of all the things that she considers a waste of time (for example, sports and school)--the vlog proves to be a big hit, but...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Annabelle Louis, military brat and computer nerd, embarks on her second assignment in making friends in middle school trying out for the school play where, despite what she feels is her total lack of ability, she ends up as understudy for the lead femalepart, and with more fuel for her popular vlog, Daphne Doesn't--but Annabelle begins to realize that being popular in secret will not mean anything if she can not share her secret with her friends.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Learning to dance before the winter ball is thirteen-year-old Annabelle's latest challenge, supplying ample material for her video blog, Daphne Doesn't--even more challenging is coping with the exposure of her secret identity (it turns out her friend Johnhas known for weeks) by "cool" girl and sometime enemy Rachael, and finding a way to make what she has been hiding right with all her classmates.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Annabelle's mother gets her to dress up a little, she suddenly finds herself eating and shopping with the Rachael and the other "cool" girls, but also loosing the friends, like John, that she had already made; so, disgusted by whatfashion is doing to her, she uses her vlog, Daphne Doesn't, to make fun of it all and get back to her true self--but Rachael has figured out who Daphne is, and it looks like Annabelle's secret identity...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
Un relato emocionante sobre la confianza, la guerra, la lealtad, la traición y el amor de un niño por el zorro al que ha criado desde que era un cachorro.Una pequeña obra maestra.Peter y Pax, su leal zorro, son inseparables. No obstante, cuando sucede lo impensable y su padre tiene que partir a la guerra, Peter se ve obligado a abandonar a Pax a su suerte.Pero Peter sabe que su lugar está junto a Pax. Espoleado por una amistad inquebrantable,...
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