This book gently guides readers through the struggles and joys of family life in the military and provides lots of concrete coping strategies, insightful advice, and compassionate reassurance.
Recalls what it was like to travel from Alaska to Texas as part of a military family in the 1940s and some of the differences in how people got around then and now.
After their mother's death, Katie and her old sister, Diane, struggle to understand their distant, violent father while coping with the loss that has changed their lives.
After moving to Minot, North Dakota, with his mother, the new female base commander, Air Force dependent Stu Ballentyne gradually becomes aware that something terrible is going on in his neighbor's house.
Presents the memoirs of Forrestine "Birdie" Cooper in which she describes her frontier childhood and young adulthood as the daughter of Charles Cooper, a white officer in the Tenth U.S. Cavalry, one of the first African-American units formed after the Civil War.
