Soldier Mom |
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| Authors: | Mead, Alice |
| Lexile: | 480, |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
| ISBN: | 9781429940252, |
| Classification: | Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 111, |
“Jasmyn is looking forward to captaining the seventh-grade basketball team when her mother is called up from the army reserves to go to Saudi Arabia for the opening phase of the 1990 Persian Gulf War...Basketball has to go on the back burner; just as bad, Mom's somewhat hapless boyfriend Jake has moved in to care for Jasmyn's baby brother.” —The Horn Book
“[Mead] writes with...compassion and sensitivity.” —Starred, Booklist
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