Junior Library Guild Selection, 2013
VOYA Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers, 2013
"Full of detail about Army life, Patterson's elegant prose brings readers deep inside Jess's conflicted point of view and the many stresses she is under, as she reevaluates her role as a member of a military family." --Publisher's Weekly
The Other Side of Blue
"A story tender and true...each word seems to shimmer." -- Han Nolan, National Book Awardee