Changes

I thought this was an important book: brave, honest, funny and very tense. I do have a slight reservation about its length - almost five hundred pages seems a tad ambitious for a kitchen sink drama aimed at tweens - and I thought we could have lost a scene or two and made it both a little more tight and a little less daunting. But otherwise, I loved ''We Can Be Heroes'' and heartily recommend it to you.

Further reading could include [[A Million Angels by Kate Maryon]], a bittersweet story of a little girl coping with a father in the army and away on a tour of Afghanistan, or [[The Reminder by Rune Michaels]], an outstanding look at the various ways a family cope with the death of their mother.