Ultimate Deployment/Reunion Pack (Surviving Deployment; I’m Already Home Again; 3 Deployment Journals--Spouses, Parents, Kids; Daddy, You’re My Hero; A Year of Absence; The Wishing Tree; My Red Balloon; Courage After Fire; Life After Deployment)

Find ideas, stories, and encouragement for the whole family with this collection of our most popular and award-winning deployment and reunion books. Includes 11 books: Surviving Deployment; I'm Already Home Again; Deployment Journal for Spouses; Deployment Journal for Parents; Deployment Journal for Kids; Daddy, You're My Hero; A Year of Absence; The Wishing Tree; My Red Balloon; Courage After Fire; and Life After Deployment.

• Surviving Deployment by Karen Pavlicin
  Learn what to expect, how to prepare, and how to personally grow as individuals and families. Your survival gear will range from a sturdy toilet plunger to the fine art of letter writing. You'll manage financial changes, help children express their feelings, and discover a renewed appreciation for everyday life. Solid information. Practical checklists. Personal stories from hundreds of families.Awarded the Military Writers Society of America's Gold Medal for best reference book.
  
• I'm Already Home…Again by Elaine Dumler
  An idea book for staying close during deployments and temporary assignments. This feel-good book's second edition for families separated by duty includes 212 connection ideas, an expanded section on reunion and reintegration, added chapters for your extended family, schools, spiritual protection, and community/neighborhood services.
  
• Deployment Journal for Spouses by Rachel Robertson
  A personal journal for anyone who has a significant other deployed with the military. Gentle journal writing prompts and inspirational sayings guide you through deployment and homecoming. Keeping Track section in the back helps you log milestones, communication, and special moments.
  
• Deployment Journal for Parents by Rachel Robertson
  A personal journal for parents who have an adult child deployed with the military. Gentle journal writing prompts and inspirational sayings guide you through deployment and homecoming. Keeping Track section in the back helps you log milestones, communication, and special moments.
  
• Deployment Journal for Kids by Rachel Robertson
  Gives children a special place to record feelings and events during a loved one's deployment. This special book includes calendar pages, journal writing prompts, interesting facts about common deployment locations, military definitions, helpful ideas, and a pocket to keep mementos. For children of all ages.
  
• Daddy, You're My Hero by Michelle Ferguson-Cohen
  Helps young kids feel good about their parent's job "to make people safe... and a good world for me." A book they will want to read over and over.
  
• A Year of Absence by Jessica Redmond
  Six Army wives struggle to make it through their husbands' 15-month deployment to Iraq in this true story by Jessica Redmond. A young lieutenant's wife comes dangerously close to alcoholism. Marriages are pushed to the breaking point by the constant strain of the long months apart. Each morning the women anxiously scan the headlines, wondering if they still have a husband, if their children still have a father. Some form friendships that become their lifeline. Others somehow find courage despite their isolation. First place winner (current events) from the Midwest Book Awards; Military Writers Society of America's Gold Medal for best nonfiction book.
  
• The Wishing Tree by Mary Redman, Illust by Christina Rodriguez
  Amanda understands her dad is making the world a better place, but it doesn't make his deployment any easier. After mulling over ways she can support her dad, Amanda creates a small wishing tree in her room, writing her hopes and prayers on yellow ribbons that she ties onto the branches. As Amanda wishes for her dad to enjoy good meals, make new friends, and return safely, the little tree comes to life with yellow ribbons of hope. Includes information about wishing trees.
  
• My Red Balloon by Eve Bunting, illustrated by Maryann Cocca-Leffler
  A boy takes his red balloon to greet his Navy dad, who has been away at sea for months.
  
• Courage After Fire: Coping strategies for troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and their families by Keith Armstrong, LCSW, Suzanne Best, PhD, and Paula Domenici, PhD
  This guide for veterans of OIF and OEF will help you understand common reactions that can occur after serving in a war zone and specific strategies for addressing them. The easy-to-read format includes lists, sidebars, and short vignettes. Topics include PTSD, grief, depression, drug abuse, and changes in your view of the world and yourself.
  
• Life After Deployment by Karen Pavlicin
  Captures the tender and moving stories of military families during their reunion. Service members and their spouses, parents, fiancées, and children share the joy and anxiety of homecoming, the adjustments of living together again, and how they coped with anger, depression, PTSD, injuries, grief, and other challenges. Some families had fairytale endings. Most worked hard to rebuild their relationships after much time and change. A few suffered great losses. These military families talk candidly about what their experience was really like, offering hope and advice to others who walk this journey.