Dogtag Summer
2011
First Published
3.72
Average Rating
240
Number of Pages
Twelve-year-old Tracy-or Tuyet-has always felt different. The villagers in Vietnam called her con-lai, or "half-breed," because her father was an American GI. And she doesn't fit in with her adoptive family in California, either. But when Tracy and a friend discover a soldier's dogtag hidden among her father's things, it sets her past and her present on a collision course. Where should her broken heart come to rest? In a time and place she remembers only in her dreams? Or among the people she now calls family? Partridge's sensitive portrayal of a girl and her family grappling with the complicated legacy of war is as timely today as the events were decades ago.
Avg Rating
3.72
Number of Ratings
222
5 STARS
21%
4 STARS
41%
3 STARS
29%
2 STARS
7%
1 STARS
2%
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