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Eleven-year-old Grace Ann Brewer lives a normallife until her father joins the army in 1944 during World War II. When herfamily moves from Hazard to Ashland, Grace faces challenges entirely new toher—life without her father, fitting in at a new school and living in a newhouse are only a few. But a closer relationship with her grandmother, her spunkydog Spot and the letters she writes to her father overseas give her the courageshe needs and the amazing strength to fight her own battles on the homefront.Author Nancy Kelly Allen tells the triumphant story of Grace's coming of age.