Alice Bliss
By: Laura Harrington
Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780670022786
Subjects: Fathers and daughters; Loss (Psychology); Teenage girls; Mothers and daughters; Families of military personnel; Iraq War, 2003-; Fiction
Description: When Alice Bliss learns that her father is being deployed to Iraq, she's heartbroken. Alice idolizes her father, loves working beside him in their garden, accompanying him on the occasional roofing job, playing baseball. When he ships out, Alice is faced with finding a way to fill the emptiness he has left behind. Matt will miss seeing his daughter blossom from a tomboy into a full-blown teenager. Alice will learn to drive, join the track team, go to her first dance, and fall in love, all while trying to be strong for her mother, Angie, and take care of her precocious little sister, Ellie.