134 pages
English language
Published 2009 by G.P. Putnam's Sons, Penguin Young Readers Group.
Peace, Locomotion
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Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War.
Subjects
- Foster home care -- Fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- Orphans -- Fiction
- Peace -- Fiction
- African Americans -- Fiction
- Letters -- Fiction