Title
Collateral Damage
Publisher
Darby Creek
Publication Year
2015
ISBN
9781467780506
Pages
128 pages
Genre
realism
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Ty is very proud of his father's accomplishments as a U.S. Army sargeant, but when a brain injury and partial paralysis send his father home from Afghanistan in a wheelchair, Ty finds it hard to balance schoolwork, basketball, a girlfriend, and friends with the time and effort required to care for him.
Grade Level
6-8; 9-12
Lexile Measure
620L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Disability and Health; Military families; Physical disability; Neurological disorder; father in the military; wheelchair user; paralysis; brain injury
Main Character
male teenager
Race/Ethnicities
Black
Family Formation
mother and father
Keywords
Afghanistan; war; high school; basketball; support group; caretaker; abandoned by mother; veterans
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Jones, Patrick and Chartier, Brent, "Collateral Damage" (2015). Diverse Families. 1973.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1973