Celebrate and honor America’s veterans through an exploration of courage, patriotism, and sacrifice.
Coming Home by Greg Ruth
This nearly wordless picture book poignantly explores the spectrum of emotions experienced at a reunion of a child and their deployed parent.
War Stories by Gordon Korman
Twelve-year-old Trevor is obsessed with war-like video games and is excited to travel to France with his WWII veteran grandfather Jacob and visit the town his unit liberated. Trevor learns there is more to war than any video game can teach.
Poems in the Attic by Nikki Grimes
A young African American girl discovers poems detailing her mother’s childhood travels as part of a military family.
Fly Girls: The Daring American Women Pilots Who Helped Win WWII by P. O’Connell Pearson
This nonfiction title shines a light on an often-overlooked group of veterans, the female fighter pilots who made up the Women Airforce Service Pilots program.
The Wall by Eve Bunting
A moving story about a young boy and his father traveling to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to honor the boy’s grandfather.