Berg, Elizabeth

Katie, still mourning the death of her much-loved mother, is further upset when she must leave her friends to move with her father to Missouri, but then she meets Jimmy, a handsome, decent, married man, and learns about the joys and pain of first love.

On the hot Texas army base she calls home, Kate struggles to grow up and understand her often violent father.

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