Operation Oleander

Description:

Seventh-grader Jess and her friends establish the Order of the Oleander to collect supplies for an orphanage in Kabul, Afghanistan, where two of their parents are deployed, but when disaster strikes and many blame the Order, Jess must find a way to go on.

subjects: JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Death & Dying,  Afghan War, 2001-,  JUVENILE FICTION / Holidays & Celebrations / Patriotic Holidays,  JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Orphans & Foster Homes,  Fiction,  Clubs,  Bombings,  Soldiers,  Orphanages,  JUVENILE FICTION / People & Places / Middle East,  Charity,  JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Adoption,  History,  Children's fiction,  Soldiers, fiction,  Bombings, fiction,  Clubs, fiction,  Orphanages, fiction,  War, fiction,  Afghanistan, fiction

Places: Afghanistan

Times: 2001-