But more so, it was because I felt like Blue Skies never fully took flight. Part of this, if I'm being honest, was because reading about Glory Bea constantly reminded me that I'd already encountered that particular piece of wordplay in another children's novel. I had a hard time fully engaging with Blue Skies. Glory Bea is sure that boxcar will bring her father home. But one of the Merci Boxcars - forty-nine railroad boxcars sent to the USA from the grateful people of France - is going to be stopping in Glory Bea's hometown of Gladiola, Texas, on its way to the state capital in Austin. This means that she isn't taking much of a shine to Randall Horton, her father's old friend from the military who seems to be taking too much of an interest in Glory Bea's mother. Her father was lost on Omaha Beach, and is listed as MIA - but Glory Bea is sure that he's coming home, just like he promised.
Life is complicated for fifth-grader Glory Bea Bennett.
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