Coming Home

American Adventure #48

by Veda Boyd Jones

History comes alive for eight-to-twelve year olds in this close-up, fun-to-read, multi-generational story of a fictional family spanning three centuries of actual historical events. God's hand is seen at work in people's lives and in the events that shaped our nation.

Genres: Historical Fiction, Childrens

Paperback

First published June 1, 1999

About the author

Veda Boyd Jones enjoys the challenge of writing for diverse readers. She is the author of forty-two books: five children's historical novels, twenty-one children's biographies, three children's nonfiction books, three picture books, nine romance novels, and a coloring book. Other published works include over 400 articles and stories in children's and adult magazines (Cricket, Highlights, Humpty Dumpty, The Writer, Writer's Digest, Woman's World, etc.), articles in reference books, and five romance novellas. Veda has taught writing at Crowder College in Neosho, Missouri, and currently teaches for the Institute of Children's Literature. She and her husband, Jimmie, an architect, have three sons, Landon, Morgan, and Marshall.

Veda is a previous winner of the Writer's Digest Writing Competition in the articles division for a children's profile of Rachel Carson. Her romance novel Callie's Mountain was voted best contemporary in the annual readers' poll by Heartsong Presents a few years ago. Among her awards through the years from the Missouri Writer's Guild are Best Magazine Article, Best Historical Article, Best Adult Fiction, Best Children's Fiction, Best Children's Book, and Best Romance Novel.


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Reviews

[Jerry (Rebel With a Massive Media Library) · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm comin' home, I'm comin' home, tell the world I'm comin' home! I know my kingdom awaits, and they've forgiven my mistakes...

Seriously, though: I haven't read the other books in this series; I randomly picked up this one at a garage sale...but, now, I wish I had them. This book really brought history to life.

[Anna · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think it's fitting that I read this book on Independence Day--the story of soldiers coming home at the end of WW2 was just great in this kid's book. The sorrow that people in story went through at news of their loved sons being killed in action before the end-of-fighting was very real and a good reminder of the war the we are in today.

[Liam C. · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this series three times and it seemed to just get better and better.