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By Julia Keller
Publisher Egmont Books
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I guess you would call us a normal family. Once a month, and sometimes other times, too, Dad would be gone for a few days. Mom told us that he was in the National Guard. We were normal, you could say. And then we werent. Rachel Brownie Browning is thirteen when her father comes back from the war in Iraq. Of course she understands that he has been injured and that he will be a little different, at least for a while. But Brownie doesnt even know the man with a prosthetic arm and leg who sits in the living room day after day. Hes certainly not the father who helped her build a fort in her backyard, or played basketball with her sister, or hauled her little brother around like a sack of potatoes. Brownies mother says that because of his traumatic brain injury, their father needs their affection and patience. In time, hell be betterDad will be back. But Dad doesnt seem to be making much progress, or much effort. He doesnt smile. He doesnt talk. He wont even get out of his wheelchair, even though the doctors have taught him how and say that walking is essential to his recovery. And Brownie begins to wonder, will her family ever be able to return to the way life was before the war? A story about an ordinary family forced to deal with an extraordinary loss, Back Home tells the tale of families scarred and the battle just beginning when their wounded loved ones return home.

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36249 words36,249 words
100 pages100 pages
Lexile 700LLexile 700L
Grade 5 to 12Grade 5 to 12
Age 10-17Age 10-17
Published 2014Published 2014

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9781606840481

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