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Vietnam War shatters a family, revealing harsh truths and sacrifice.
Summary
JAMIE THINKS HER FATHER CAN DO ANYTHING…. UNTIL THE ONE TIME HE CAN DO NOTHING.
When twelve-year-old Jamie Dexter’s brother joins the Army and is sent to Vietnam, Jamie is plum thrilled. She can’t wait to get letters from the front lines describing the excitement of real-life combat: the sound of helicopters, the smell of gunpowder, the exhilaration of being right in the thick of it. After all, they’ve both dreamed of following in the footsteps of their father, the Co…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781416979869 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1416979867 |
| Author: | Frances O'Roark Dowell |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Atheneum |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 23 February 2010 |
| Weight: | 134g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 130mm x 194mm |
| Audience Age: | 10-14 |
A-Format111 × 178 mm
130 × 194 mm
B-Format130 × 198 mm
C-Format153 × 234 mm
A4210 × 297 mm
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About The Author
Frances O'Roark Dowell
Frances O’Roark Dowell is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of:
- Dovey Coe, which won the Edgar Award and the William Allen White Award
- Where I’d Like to Be
- The Secret Language of Girls and its sequels The Kind of Friends We Used to Be and The Sound of Your Voice, Only Really Far Away
- Chicken Boy
- Shooting the Moon, which was awarded the Christopher Award
- The Phineas L. MacGuire series
- Falling In
- The Second Life of Abigail Walker, which received three starred reviews
- Anybody Shining
- Ten Miles Past Normal
- Trouble the Water
- The Sam the Man series
- The Class
- How to Build a Story
- Hazard
- And, most recently, Then a House Fell on Her Head.
She lives with her family in Durham, North Carolina.
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