# Hazard - Hardcover

by **Frances O'Roark Dowell** (Author)

**A kid filled with rage, suspended from the football team for unsportsmanlike conduct, and his father, newly home from the war in Afghanistan, reckon with the injuries they've caused to others and themselves in this unflinching middle grade novel in verse about love and forgiveness.**

Hazard's a military kid, best known for his prowess at football, and his short fuse. His dad's been in Afghanistan, third tour. The worry and the pressure over school and his dad are getting to Hazard until one day, the fuse sets off and the repercussions have him benched for six games and assigned to go to therapy. Which is where his dad is as well, at Walter Reed Medical Center, because he's home now--well, most of him. Hazard's dad's now learning to walk with a prosthetic, but that's not his primary injury. His worst wound is a moral injury: what he did on the battleground that he may never be able to forgive himself for.

As part of Hazard's therapy, he has to trace back the causes of his own anger by tracing back his father's journey, through letters and emails and texts, so that he can come to terms with what he himself has done--his own moral injury--and help his father overcome his own.

### Author Biography

Frances O'Roark Dowell is the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of _Dovey Coe_, which won the Edgar Award and the William Allen White Award; _Where I'd Like to Be_; _The Secret Language of Girls_ and its sequels _The Kind of Friends We Used to Be_ and _The Sound of Your Voice, Only Really Far Away_; _Chicken Boy_; _Shooting the Moon_, which was awarded the Christopher Award; the Phineas L. MacGuire series; _Falling In_; _The Second Life of Abigail Walker_, which received three starred reviews; _Anybody Shining;_ _Ten Miles Past Normal_; _Trouble the Water_; the Sam the Man series; _The Class_; _How to Build a Story_; and most recently, _Hazard_. She lives with her family in Durham, North Carolina. Connect with Frances online at FrancesDowell.com.

**Number of Pages:** 160

**Dimensions:** 0.69 x 9.28 x 4.95 IN

**Publication Date:** May 10, 2022

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Hazard

**Interest Level:** Middle Grades, 4-8

**Reading Level:** 4.9

**Point Value:** 2

## Details

- **Price:** 17.99 USD
- **Vendor:** Books by splitShops
- **Type:** Books
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