Mare's War
Meet Mare, a grandmother with flair and a fascinating past. Octavia and Tali are dreading the road trip their parents are forcing them to take with their grandmother over the summer. After all, Mare isnat your typical grandmother. She drives a red sports car, wears stiletto shoes, flippy wigs, and push-up bras, and insists that sheas too young to be called Grandma. But somewhere on the road, Octavia and Tali discover thereas more to Mare than what you see. She was once a willful teenager who escaped her less-than-perfect life in the deep South and lied about her age to join the African American battalion of the Womenas Army Corps during World War II. Told in alternating chapters, half of which follow Mare through her experiences as a WAC member and half of which follow Mare and her granddaughters on the road in the present day, this novel introduces a larger-than-life character who will stay with readers long after they finish reading. From the Hardcover edition.... in line, till out the papers, walk up to that high counter, and take the test, filling in the squares with the right letter of the multiple choice. ... Mom waited and waited tor me, and when the DMV was ready to close, I crumpled up my paper and walked away ... The bell jingling in rhe doorway of the gift shop 116 Tanita S. Davis.
| Title | : | Mare's War |
| Author | : | Tanita S. Davis |
| Publisher | : | Knopf Books for Young Readers - 2009-06-09 |
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