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Soldier Mom by Alice Mead and Alice Weber James (1999, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux

ISBN-100374371245

ISBN-139780374371241

eBay Product ID (ePID)314279

Product Key Features

Book TitleSoldier Mom

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicFamily / Parents, General, Girls & Women, Family / General (See Also Headings under Social Themes), Historical / Military & Wars

Publication Year1999

GenreJuvenile Fiction

AuthorAlice Mead, Alice Weber James

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight10.9 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience

LCCN98-055434

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"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

Grade FromThird Grade

Dewey DecimalFic

Grade ToSeventh Grade

SynopsisA single parent is suddenly called to serve in the Persian Gulf War. In early August 1990, eleven-year-old Jasmyn Williams is shocked when her mother, a member of the Army Reserve, is called to active service. Within thirty-six hours, she is gone. Jas and Andrew, her baby half brother, are left in the care of her mother's boyfriend, Jake, who has never been responsible for Andrew, much less Jas. At first Jas is filled with anger. Then, despite the sacrifices she must make, including precious basketball practice, Jas comes to understand that her mother has to do her job. Still, she wonders, should a mother have a job that might require abandoning her children? Alice Mead, always an advocate for children, takes a firm stand on their behalf even as she creates a heroine who could probably adjust to anything.

LC Classification NumberPZ7.M47887So 1999