TY - BOOK N2 - When Alice Bliss learns that her father is being deployed to Iraq, she's heartbroken. Alice idolizes her father, loves working beside him in their garden, accompanying him on the occasional roofing job, playing baseball. When he ships out, Alice is faced with finding a way to fill the emptiness he has left behind. Matt will miss seeing his daughter blossom from a tomboy into a full-blown teenager. Alice will learn to drive, join the track team, go to her first dance, and fall in love, all while trying to be strong for her mother, Angie, and take care of her precocious little sister, Ellie. AB - When Alice Bliss learns that her father is being deployed to Iraq, she's heartbroken. Alice idolizes her father, loves working beside him in their garden, accompanying him on the occasional roofing job, playing baseball. When he ships out, Alice is faced with finding a way to fill the emptiness he has left behind. Matt will miss seeing his daughter blossom from a tomboy into a full-blown teenager. Alice will learn to drive, join the track team, go to her first dance, and fall in love, all while trying to be strong for her mother, Angie, and take care of her precocious little sister, Ellie. T1 - Alice Bliss / DA - 2011. CY - New York : AU - Harrington, Laura, CN - PS3608.A78185 CN - PS3608.A78185 PB - Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, PP - New York : PY - 2011. ID - 434743 KW - Teenage girls KW - Families of military personnel KW - Fathers and daughters KW - Mothers and daughters KW - Loss (Psychology) KW - Iraq War, 2003-2011 SN - 9780670022786 SN - 0670022780 TI - Alice Bliss / ER -