Military or Veteran Family Members in Children's Fiction

Minnie McClary Speaks Her Mind by Valerie Hobbs

• Pub Date: 2012 
• Grades 4-7 interest
• See also: Teachers, Moving/New Kid
• Minnie's uncle, recently home from Iraq, lives in her family's basement.

Summer Before Boys by Nora Raleigh Baskin

• Pub Date: 2011
• Grades 5-8 interest
• See also in Children's: Summer Vacation
• See also in Teen: BFF Trouble 
• Julia's mom is serving as a nurse in Iraq. 

The End of the Wild by Nicole Helget

• Pub Date: 2017
• Grades 5-7 interest
• See also: Science, Nature 
• Fern lives with stepfather, a veteran with PTSD.

After Eli by Rebecca Rupp

• Pub Date: 2012
• Grades 6-8 interest
• See also in Children's:  Summer Vacation
• See also in Teen: Grief/Loss

Everything Else in the Universe by Tracy Holczer

• Pub Date: 2018
• Grades 4-6 interest
• See also: Summer Vacation, Only Children, Searching
• Lucy's dad is home from Vietnam, but that doesn't mean everything is back to normal.