Coming on Home Soon Juvenile Fiction / Family - Multigenerational / Social Themes - Emigration & Immigration / People & Places - United States - Asian American & Pacific Islander but that dream seems farther

but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse

and she plays or sings every chance she gets

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it is just in time to wear something new to the school talent show

Coming on Home Soon Juvenile Fiction / Family - Multigenerational / Social Themes - Emigration & Immigration / People & Places - United States - Asian American & Pacific Islander but that dream seems fartherAda Ruth's mama must go away to Chicago to work, leaving Ada Ruth and Grandma behind. It's war time, and women are needed to fill the men's jobs. As winter sets in, Ada Ruth and her grandma keep up their daily routine, missing Mama all the time. They find strength in each other, and a stray kitten even arrives one day to keep them company, but nothing can fill the hole Mama left. Every day they wait, watching for the letter that says Mama will be