Age
8-12
Grade
3-6
Elizabeth Partridge
Dogtag Summer
Hardcover
(Bloomsbury USA Childrens March 15, 2011)
, 1st Edition
Twelve-year-old Tracy-or Tuyet-has always felt different. The villagers in Vietnam called her con-lai, or "half-breed," because her father was an American GI. And she doesn't fit in with her adoptive family in California, either. But when Tracy and a friend discover a soldier's dogtag hidden among her father's things, it sets her past and her present on a collision course. Where should her broken heart come to rest? In a time and place she remembers only in her dreams? Or among the people she now calls family? Partridge's sensitive portrayal of a girl and her family grappling with the complicated legacy of war is as timely today as the events were decades ago.
- ISBN
- 1599901838 / 9781599901831
- Pages
- 240
- Weight
- 10.4 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.41 x 1.02 in.
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