Author: Kristine L Franklin

Published: 1999

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Format: Hardback

Pages: 191

Suitable: Upper Primary / Secondary

Bobbie Lynn's mother has always been delicate and moody, prone to crying spells, and dependent on Daddy for everything. Now Daddy has been sent away to fight in the war in Vietnam. When the awful news comes that he's missing in action, Bobbie Lynn and her older brother, Mason, are worried. How is Mama going to take care of them for a whole year? And what if Daddy never comes home at all? At once wrenching and uplifting, Dove Song tells a powerful story of learning to ask for help and discovering that others will be there when you do.