Our children see how tough the world is around them and they are usually don't talk about it. This book changes that. Ten-year old Brittany Dodson has a hard time coping when she suddenly finds herself and her mother homeless and sleeping under a bridge along the Fox River in Aurora, Illinois. Her mother lost her job and her father, who was called into active duty while serving in the Air Force Reserves, is missing when his plane is shot down over Iraq. She is horrified when she is forced to work with classmates on a social studies project in which they are going to look for people who have...