A blog for kids and adults in the St. Joseph County/Michiana area who are interested in understanding how books are eligible for the Newbery, and discussing which ones are truly distinguished.
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Dogtag Summer by Elizabeth Partridge
Dogtag Summer by Elizabeth Partridge
Bloomsbury Books for Young Readers
2011
229p.
In the summer
of 1980 before she starts junior high school in Santa Rosa, California,
Tracy, who was adopted from Vietnam when she was six years old, finds
an old ammo box with a dog tag and picture that bring up painful memories for both her Vietnam-veteran father and her.
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