![]() ![]() In the opening scenes of the book, Daddy is mad a lot, with a short temper and obviously bad memories from his time as a prisoner of war. ![]() Not many books for kids deal with PTSD, and not many from the 1950s especially. In Chapter 1 we read about Marly's family on their way to her great-grandma's farm in rural Pennsylvania-the farm is long abandoned and out-of-use, but Marly's Daddy came home from the war (presumably World War II or Korea) with post-traumatic stress disorder, and the hope is that he'll recover in the country with something to do. One of the first things you'll notice about Miracles on Maple Hill is that it's surprisingly realistic for a children's novel published in 1956. ![]()
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