Shooting the Moon by Frances O'Roark Dowell
Army brat Jaime Dexter is frustrated and jealous that her brother TJ is going to Vietnam where all the excitement and action is. TJ is a photographer and instead of letters home he sends film for his younger sister to process and print. Through these images Jaime leans about the grim realities of war and comes to understand herself, her family and the nature of the Army a little better.
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The Park School ~ Summer Reading 2018
Shooting the Moon by Frances O'Roark Dowell (Historical Fiction for Grade/s6, 7)