Operation Yes by Holmes is another VRC selection. The cover has 2 little green solderies men. Taking a better look at the cover it does give a clue to the story. I really liked this story, I didn't really know anything about this story but once I began reading the story I enjoyed it and was dragged into the story, by Gari and Bo. Its not the firstbook I have read about the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars but the first book that brought me into the life of a soldier getting ready to leave her family,other families living on a military base and the pain and recovery of a injured solider. THANK YOU
Don't be afraid to read this book it's not about war but folks getting together to help each other. 'looking for the cracks' and 'Yes, and ...'
From authors website:
“Be kind, for everyone you know is fighting a great battle.”
It’s just a rectangle of tape on a plain linoleum floor. Ten feet long, four feet deep, at the front of a sixth-grade classroom near an Air Force base in North Carolina. But when Miss Loupe steps into the space, it becomes a putting green. A prison cell. A stage. And she teaches her students how to make that magic—theatre—happen as well.
Bo loves the improvisation exercises: They focus his restless energies and distract him from his father’s impending deployment overseas. But Gari has more important things to worry about—like getting her mom home safe from Iraq. When Miss Loupe’s brother goes missing in Afghanistan and Miss Loupe herself breaks down, Gari, Bo, and the rest of the class have to improvise their way through their own “great battles” . . . and find a way to help their teacher fight hers.
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