![]() ![]() The downside was that every time you made a friend, you had to move away.” And her friend Vivian adds, “My mother thinks I’m having this great international experience, but changing schools all the time is just the same horrible experience over and over.” The constant moving of military families is an important theme in Second Fiddle and the book does a great job of capturing the sense of loss, while at the same time, even the thirteen-year-old characters appreciate that they are also receiving a gift.Īs the main character, Jody says near the beginning, “The upside of being a military kid was that you got to see a lot of cool places. And I have the annoying habit of being able to trump just about anyone’s extreme temperature stories, having lived in both one of the hottest cities in the world, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and one of the coldest, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. But the appeal of exotic travel chronicles only part of the experience. It is accurate that I have lived in six countries and four states. From the outside it may seem that this is always true of military family life. Second Fiddle is a story of adventures in exotic locales. ![]()
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