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Dogtag Summer

Elizabeth Partridge

3.7/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 240

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens

Release: March 15, 2011

ISBN: 1599901838

ISBN 13: 9781599901831

Dogtag Summer

Elizabeth Partridge

3.7/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 240

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens

Release: March 15, 2011

ISBN: 1599901838

ISBN 13: 9781599901831

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