Watkins, Steve. Great
Falls. Candlewick Press 2016 245p. $17.99
ISBN 978-0-7636-7155-6 hs Realistic fiction VG-BN
Shane’s big brother Jeremy comes back from fighting in
the war in Afghanistan as a very different big brother than the one Shane loved
and idolized before he left. When the two go on a camping trip, Shane realizes
that what he had hoped for on the trip, some healing for his brother who
suffers from PTSD, will not happen and that he is in way over his head in
trying to help Jeremy. The subject of
PTSD and the devastating impact it has on families is the focus of this
coming-of-age novel. Jeremy’s desperation to become “normal” again so he can
move forward with his life and his family is painful to read. Shane’s inability
to cope with the changes that Jeremy’s return has created, and his own personal
problems, ring very true to this reader. YA readers will no doubt enjoy diving
into this realistic tale of a family in crisis.
Summary: Shane’s big brother Jeremy comes back from
fighting in the war in Afghanistan as a very different big brother than the one
Shane loved and idolized before he left.
PTSD-Fiction, War in Afghanistan-Fiction --Lynn Fisher
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