Crazy in Love

The Baby-Sitters Club Series

Love Like Sky

Planet Tad

Surviving High School

Going, Going, Gone! with the Pain and the Great One

Moonpenny Island

Kindred Souls

If I've learned anything from comic books, it's that everybody has one thing that can totally ruin their day without fail. For the wolfman it's a silver bullet. For Superman it's kryptonite. For me it was a letter.

With one letter, my dad was sent back to Afghanistan to fly Apache helicopters for the U.S. army.

Now all I have are his letters. Ninety-one of them to be exact. I keep them in his old plastic lunchbox—the one with the cool black car on it that says Knight Rider underneath. Apart from my comic books, Dad's letters are the only things I read more than once. I know which ones to read when I'm down and need a pick-me-up. I know which ones will make me feel like I can conquer the world. I also know exactly where to go when I forget Mom's birthday. No matter what, each letter always says exactly what I need to hear. But what I want to hear the most is that my dad is coming home.

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Crazy in Love

Dandi Daley Mackall, 2007

The Baby-Sitters Club Series

Raina Telgemeier, Ann M. Martin, Gxegauy, 2022

Love Like Sky

Leslie C. Youngblood, 2018

Planet Tad

Tim Carvell, 2012

Surviving High School

Lele Pons, Melissa De La Cruz, 2016

Going, Going, Gone! with the Pain and the Great One

Judy Blume, James Stevenson, 2008

Moonpenny Island

Gilbert Ford, Tricia Springstubb, 2015

Kindred Souls

Patricia Maclachlan, 2012