Sarah Bird - Yokota Officers Club

Pros: funny and moving all at the same time

Cons: the male characters are pretty thin

The Bottom Line: As a family disintegrates in a cloud of secrecy, the eldest daughter hunts for reasons and answers. Miltary brat or not, don't miss this one!

Review: Once upon a time, a lifetime (and a husband) ago, my sister spent a year as a military wife on an Army base in Germany. She learned a little German (Ich spreche keine Deutsch.), traveled big chunks of Europe in a VW Beetle, met Paul Shaffer, and...

Pros: It's Sarah Bird at her best

Cons: A little more serious than some of her other works- towards the end

The Bottom Line: If you were a military brat, this is the book for you!

Review: Our heroine is Bernadette "Bernie" Root, a military brat. It is the summer after her first year of college, and she joins her family at their new assignment: Kadena Air Base, Okinawa.

There is something wrong in her family: her once-beautiful...