by Frances O'Roark Dowell
Another great Francis O'Roark Dowell book. This is the story of Jamie. She and her brother TJ have always looked up to their father, the Colonel. But when TJ enlists in the army to serve in the Vietnam war, the Colonel is less than pleased. Jamie, however is thrilled. She asks TJ to send her letters...
This will be a rather small review, and my first, but I'll just say that it was a smaller book.First off, it started off good. Twelve year old girl, Jamie, and her older brother, TJ, who I think is about five years older. Jamie's dad is the Cornell in the army, and her mother is a stay at home mom. ...
This will be a rather small review, and my first, but I'll just say that it was a smaller book.First off, it started off good. Twelve year old girl, Jamie, and her older brother, TJ, who I think is about five years older. Jamie's dad is the Cornell in the army, and her mother is a stay at home mom. ...
"But the Colonel seemed to want me to be happy, and he seemed genuinely pleased when I was happy, and that struck me as a pretty good definition of love when you got right down to it."
I loved this book. It's a first-person narrative told by Jamie, the daughter of a Colonel at Fort Hood during the Vietnam War. At the beginning of the book, Jamie is firmly pro-war. She says that if she were old enough, she'd join up herself and drive an ambulance or something, because she would ...
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