Bomboy, Chesterfield County Public Schools, VAĬopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. The book ends with the class's resolve to send pictures to their friend at the front until the war is over. The unique format and Lewin's charcoal sketches will appeal to fans of Giff's "Polk Street School" series (Delacorte). The children's collective and individual concerns are sensitively conveyed in a lighthearted manner. The letter exchange (the children's writings plus a couple of letters from a female soldier) is certainly an interesting literary technique for counseling young readers about the war. By expressing their feelings in letters to Miss Loria, the children work out for themselves what they can and can't do on the home front for those fighting far away. Their beloved student teacher has left them for a new job, and the country is headed toward war in the Middle East. Grade 2-5- January 1991 is a scary and difficult time for the students in Mrs.
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