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A Less Than Perfect Peace

by Jacqueline Levering Sullivan

Ages: 12+

Published: 2014

Publisher: Eerdmans BFYR

ISBN: 978-0-8028-5431-5

Keywords: Veterans, Disabilities, Refugees

It's 1950, and fourteen-year-old Annie Howard just wants to help her depressed, disabled father as well as her new friends, Dutch refugees.