Hazard / Frances O'Roark Dowell.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Edition: First editionDescription: 146 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781481424660
- 1481424661
- 9781481424677
- 148142467X
- Families of military personnel -- Juvenile fiction
- Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Juvenile fiction
- Fathers and sons -- Juvenile fiction
- Anger -- Juvenile fiction
- Psychoanalytic counseling -- Juvenile fiction
- Amputees -- Juvenile fiction
- Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Juvenile fiction
- Children of military personnel -- Fiction
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Fiction | DOWELL, FRANCES | Available | 33111010656961 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A kid filled with rage, suspended from the football team for unsportsmanlike conduct, and his father, newly home from the war in Afghanistan, reckon with the injuries they've caused to others and themselves in this unflinching middle grade novel in verse about love and forgiveness.
Hazard's a military kid, best known for his prowess at football, and his short fuse. His dad's been in Afghanistan, third tour. The worry and the pressure over school and his dad are getting to Hazard until one day, the fuse sets off and the repercussions have him benched for six games and assigned to go to therapy. Which is where his dad is as well, at Walter Reed Medical Center, because he's home now--well, most of him. Hazard's dad's now learning to walk with a prosthetic, but that's not his primary injury. His worst wound is a moral injury: what he did on the battleground that he may never be able to forgive himself for.
As part of Hazard's therapy, he has to trace back the causes of his own anger by tracing back his father's journey, through letters and emails and texts, so that he can come to terms with what he himself has done--his own moral injury--and help his father overcome his own.
"A Caitlyn Dlouhy book."
Ages 9-13. Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
Grades 4-6. Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
Told in a series of reports to his therapist, Hazard is resentful about being forced into counseling after being suspended from his school football team for unsportsmanlike conduct, angry that his father has served four tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, angry that his father has lost a leg when an IED blew up--but as his therapy progresses he begins to process what has happened to him and his family, including his father's psychological trauma that has made him refuse to see his sons.