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When I first began this blog, I read a book called Blue by Joyce Moyer Hostetter. It is about a 13 year-old girl named Ann Fay Honeycutt who becomes the "man of the house" when her father go to war in 1944, that is, until she contracts polio in an epidemic sweeping the area around her home in Hickor......more

Could not put this one down! As WWII looms, fourteen year old Junior works through the death of his father and slowly reconciles the dysfunctional behaviors and relationships between his dad, aunts, and granddad. Thankfully he has an understanding mother, and both of them are surrounded by a loving......more

Junior Bledsoe is not having a good year. His cantankerous grandfather has moved in with them. His next door neighbor Miss Pauline is his teacher this year. And to top it all off, his father dies unexpectedly. Junior struggles with the loss of his father and sometimes gets up to trouble. He's jealou......more

It was a mundane story,about a boy growing up and maturing, trying to overcome the pass of his father..I liked the idea of how people can influence each other, bring the best in them, help them , and to be there when the other is in need .......more

This beautifully written YA historical is set in rural North Carolina in 1941. Fourteen-year-old Junior Bledsoe tries to juggle his grief over his father's death, his shame over said father's reputation and his newly stressed family situation, all at the outbreak of WWII. The characters are so well......more