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Eleven-year-old Jasmyn gets a different perspective on life when her mother is sent to Saudi Arabia at the beginning of the Persian Gulf War, leaving her and her baby half brother behind in Maine in the care of her Mother's boyfriend.
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3 editions- Other · English · 2001Dell Yearling · 152 pages · 9780440229001
- Other · English · 1999Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 9781429940252
- Other · English · 1999Farrar Straus Giroux · 151 pages · 9780374371241
Persian Gulf War, 1991Single-parent familiesFictionMothers and daughtersJuvenile fictionChildren's fictionSingle-parent families, fictionMothers, fiction