My Military Mom is the story of a normal day in Connor's life. When classmate Lenny visits his home, he discovers Connor's mom is deployed in the US military. Who helps with his homework? Dad! Who taught him to play basketball? Mom! Who does his laundry? Dad! Lenny realizes love makes a family. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO. Reviewed...

"When ten-year-old Birdie's dad is sent back to Iraq, she makes a deal with God to bring him home safely, while dealing with a new school where she finds it hard to make friends especially when she could use one" -- Birdie has questions for God. For starters, why couldnt God roll history back to September 10, 2001, and fix thingsso the next day was an ordinary sunny day and not the devastating lead-in to two wars? Daddy has already been to Iraq twice....

"After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter decides to leave home and get his best friend back"--

Suzy spends her year in first grade waiting for her father, who is serving in Vietnam, and when the postcards stop coming she worries that he will never make it home.

It was 2006, and eight hundred soldiers from the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) base in pseudonymous "Armyville," Canada, were scheduled to deploy to Kandahar. Many students in the Armyville school district were destined to be affected by this and several subsequent deployments. These deployments, however, represented such a new and volatile situation that the school district lacked-as indeed most Canadians lacked-the understanding required for an optimum...

Macy Hollinquest is eleven years old, and don't count on her to change that anytime soon. Her birthday is just days away, but she has no intention of turning twelve without her dad by her side. He'd promised to be there for her big day, and yet he's been gone for months -- away after his discharge from the army, doing some kind of top secret, "important work." So Macy's staying eleven, no matter what -- that is, until she meets Ginger, a nice older...

"Ike Pressure is an Army brat. Which, if you ask him, is not an insult. His mom's new job is in Mercury, Nevada, on a secretive military base close to Area 51. What's more, his childhood friend, Eesha Webb, and her family are about to move there too. Spoiler alert: Ike and Eesha aren't really best buds, even though their parents think so. They used to play together when they were little kids, but now she's more like his nemesis. Still, it's clear...

"Ever since the letters from Mom stopped coming, Jessie has been afraid--afraid that something terrible has happened in the war where her mom is fighting. And afraid that her mom might never come back. Thinking a change of scenery might be a helpful distraction, Jessie's dad moves them to a small town in southern Minnesota. There, Jessie meets two new friends: Oscar, a thoughtful boy whose brother just returned from fighting in Afghanistan; and Nicky,...

"When her mother is deployed overseas, a young girl is temporarily parted from her beloved dog." -- Provided by publisher.