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Mare's War
Contributor(s): Davis, Tanita S.

ISBN: 0007954462 ISBN-13: 9780375857140
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc

OUR PRICE: $17.84

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Published: June 2009
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Annotation: "Meet Mare, a grandmother with flair and a fascinating past."
Octavia and Tali are dreading the road trip their parents are forcing them to take with their grandmother over the summer. After all, Mare isn't your typical grandmother. She drives a red sports car, wears stiletto shoes, flippy wigs, and push-up bras, and insists that she's too young to be called Grandma. But somewhere on the road, Octavia and Tali discover there's more to Mare than what you see. She was once a willful teenager who escaped her less-than-perfect life in the deep South and lied about her age to join the African American battalion of the Women's Army Corps during World War II.
Told in alternating chapters, half of which follow Mare through her experiences as a WAC member and half of which follow Mare and her granddaughters on the road in the present day, this novel introduces a larger-than-life character who will stay with readers long after they finish reading.

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | People & Places - United States - African American
- Young Adult Fiction | Historical - United States - 20th Century

Dewey: Grandmothers; Juvenile fiction.

LCCN: Automobile travel; J

Age Level: 1.25

Grade Level: 1.00

Guided Reading: 0

Awards: Coretta Scott King Award, Honor Book, Author, 2010
Louisiana Teen Readers' Choice, Nominee, Grades 9-12, 2012

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