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Children of military personnel Children of military personnel Fiction Children of military personnel Juvenile fiction Children of military personnel United States Biography Conduct of life Families Families of military personnel Fathers and daughters Fiction Inteligencia militar Estados Unidos Teatro Operaciones de salvamento TeatroLesage, Marla
Summary: ". . . explores the realities of PTSD from a kid's perspective. The book includes an author's note and kid-friendly mental health resources. As a military child, eleven-year-old Leah moves . . . a lot. But this summer she will be the one left behind when her best friend's family is reassigned. To make matters worse, her mother will be away for training, leaving Leah at home with her father,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LESFaulkner, Harris
Summary: Growing up in a military family, journalist and news anchor Harris Faulkner experienced firsthand how success in life is rooted in the knowledge, integrity, and duty that came from her military surroundings. She shares the formative lessons in leadership and work ethic she learned from a lifetime spent absorbing the military mindset, and offers recommendations for how all families can benefit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FAUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FAULKNER, HARRIS FAUAyoub, Jenna
Summary: "There's no place like (a haunted) home. Willow has never had a place she can call home. With two parents in the military and a nomadic childhood, finding a place to make her own has become a total pipe dream. And when the family arrives at their latest stop -- the historic Hadleigh House -- Willow encounters something that doesn't help her chances of staying put... GHOSTS! Hadleigh House's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: KaBOOM! 2021
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Summary: Lenny follows Connor for a school project and learns about his life with a military mom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Looking Glass Library, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC HARMiller, Marie-Therese
Summary: "This guide offers an accessible approach to life with a deployed parent and presents helpful information on how to stay in touch. While routines change, the love for a parent doesn't"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355.1 MILHickey, Caroline
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HICNguyẽ̂n, Phan Qué̂ Mai
Summary: "An American GI, two Vietnamese bargirls, and an Amerasian man are forced to make decisions during and after the Viet Nam War that will reverberate throughout one another's lives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC NGUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NGUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction NguyenBerg, Elizabeth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BERAlexander, Jerad W.
Summary: "The memoir of a young man from a long line of enlisted men and women, raised on military bases and shaped from a young age to idolize and glorify war and the people who fight it. After he joins the Marines and serves in Iraq, he must begin to reckon withthe troubled and complicated truths of the American war machine"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALEXANDER, JERAD W. ALEElliott, Laura
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ELLMaddox, Jake
Summary: Because his father is in the Army, Oliver Jeffries has never lived in any one place for long, but he was hoping that Colorado would be different because he is the starting wide receiver on the Jackson Middle School's football team--so when he gets word that his family is moving again he is bitterly disappointed, but he has one more game and he is determined to make it a good one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Maddox 2016Berg, Elizabeth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC Berg,Smith, Ronald L. (Ronald Lenard)
Summary: After something strange happens during a camping trip, twelve-year-old alien-obsessed Simon suspects he has been abducted, but was it real or just his overactive imagination?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "When her mother is deployed overseas, a young girl is temporarily parted from her beloved dog"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pruett 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MIDDLETON, HARRY MIDPennypacker, Sara
Summary: Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. But one day the unimaginable happens: Peter's dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild. At his grandfather's house three hundred miles away from home, Peter knows he isn't where he should be-with Pax. He strikes out on his own despite the encroaching war, spurred by love, loyalty, and grief,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway 2021
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Risking their lives on deadly undercover missions around the globe, the Unit is a highly skilled, ultra-secret contingent of special forces soldiers operating outside the traditional chain of military command. The hunters become the hunted as the team and their families are targeted by a deadly and far-reaching conspiracy forcing them to relocate and assume new identities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009