Soldier Mom - Hardcover

Mead, Alice

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374371245 ISBN 13: 9780374371241

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999

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When her mother, called into service in the Gulf War, leaves eleven-year-old Jas Williams behind, forcing her to make difficult sacrifices, Jas slowly begins to realize that her mother has to do her job.

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About the Author:

Alice Mead, author of Adem's Cross, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, Junebug, and Junebug and the Reverend, lives in Maine.

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rrified when her single mother is called up from the army reserves to go to Saudi Arabia at the start of the Persian Gulf War. Her mother is gone two days later, leaving Jasmyn with Jake, her mother’s boyfriend and the father of her baby half brother. Suddenly Jas finds herself in charge of running the house and caring for the baby. Now there’s no time for practice with her school basketball team. Jas can’t understand why her mother has a job that forces her to leave her children. If only Jake were a more responsible adult. Feeling abandoned and overwhelmed, Jas wonders how much longer this can go on.

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