Bibliograph

Soldier sister, fly home, Nancy Bo Flood ; illustrations by Shonto Begay

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Label

Soldier sister, fly home, Nancy Bo Flood ; illustrations by Shonto Begay

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Soldier sister, fly home

Nature of contents

dictionaries

resource.readingGradeLevel

590, Lexile

Responsibility statement

Nancy Bo Flood ; illustrations by Shonto Begay

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader AR, MG, 4.0, 5, 182913

Summary

After her half-sister is deployed to Iraq, Tess agrees to care for her sister's horse Blue and take him with her when she goes to her grandmother's sheep camp for the summer, but an unexpected tragedy leads her to question her identityHalf-Navajo, half-white sisters Tess and Gaby are separated when Gaby drops out of college to join the army. Now as Gaby is deployed to Iraq, she asks Tess to care for Blue, the spirited horse that Tess dislikes. Tess struggles with her identity and with missing her sister, and she decides to spend the summer with her grandmother at sheep camp where tragedy strikes

Target audience

adolescent

Classification

Contributor

Creator