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Benito's father has been in Iraq for more than a year. When he returns, life is not the same for the family. His father yells constantly and can't even pick up a soccer ball. If that's not bad enough, at a soccer fundraiser, Dad goes nuts about camel spiders in his bowling shoes. Ben is mortified and wishes his father had never come home. Dad suffers from PTSD and Ben can't deal with seeing his father as crazy, so he runs away. It's not until he's mugged in a bus station that he realizes, as crazy as his father may be, he still loves him and he'd rather be home and helping him deal, than…
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9 editions- Other · English · 2017Lerner Publishing Group · 104 pages · 9781512458206
- Other · English · 2015Lerner Publishing Group · 104 pages · 9781467760089
- Other · English · 2014Lerner Publishing Group · 104 pages · 9781467770330
- Other · English · 2013Lerner Publishing Group · 104 pages · 9781467729628
- Other · English · 2013Lerner Publishing Group · 104 pages · 9781467729611
- Other · English · 2011Lerner Classroom · 9780761361510
Post-traumatic stress disorderHispanic AmericansVeterans' familiesFathersJuvenile fictionFictionChildren's fictionFathers, fiction




