Soldier sister, fly home
By: Nancy Bo Flood ; illustrations by Shonto Begay
Contributors: Begay, Shonto, illustrator
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781338110944
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Sisters; Fiction; Navajo Indians; Families; Horses; Young adult fiction; Indians of North America; Family life; Sœurs; Romans, nouvelles; Navajo (Indiens); Familles; Chevaux; Roman pour jeunes adultes
Description: Half-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.
Notes: Includes discussion questions.

A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG.)