Love You Soldier
By Amy Hest
Published by Puffin Books
Copyright 1991
47 Pages
Children's Chapter Book

This story is about a seven year old girl named Katie. Her father is shipped of to war during the second world war. At the train station, when they're saying goodbye, her father buys both her and her mother a rose and then he leaves. The next couple of months go by and Katie doesnt like hearing her mother cry at night. She writes her father every week and he writes both of them back. One day, her mother's old friend comes to visit. She is pregnat and her husband is also serving. Katie and her mother invite Louise to stay with them. She does and when its time for the baby to come, Katie has to walk with her all the way to the hospital in a blizzard because there are no taxi cabs. Katie starts helping taking care of the baby and soon starts seeing it as her siser. One day Louis's brother,Sam, comes and visits. He and Katie really get along but then he has to go back to the war. Years go by until one day when a message comes to Katie's mother that her father was killed in action. Her mother is devistated and Katie has a hard time accepting it. When Louis's husband comes back from the war he takes Louise and the baby back home so then it was just Katie and her mom. Then Katie gets a letter from Sam, he's living on a ranch in Texas. Katie finds out that Sam and her mother have been writing to eachother and she refuses to write back to Sam because she doesnt want her mother to love him. After a while she sends him a letter and her mother informs her that they are starting over, and that they're moving to Texas. Katie realizes that her mother still loves her father but that she has fallen in love with Sam and thats ok. She likes seeing her mother happy. They move to Texas and when they pull into the train station, Sam has a rose for both Katie and her mother.
I almost cried when i read this book, i love it so much. it is such a tender book full of emotion.
I would receomend this book to everyone. when i was finished reading it, i made all my roommates read it too.
i see absolutely so problems coming from this book.