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Caught in the run up to World War II, Connor considers enlisting, expecting he will go to Europe. Maybe he can protect his sister who's in Paris with the Foreign Service. But, it's hard to think about leaving home and family, for another years-long exile. Filled with flashbacks of his travels living off the land and letters to keep him tethered to his family, Connor's story spans two of America's most disruptive decades (The economic Depression of the 1930s and World War II of the 1940s) in which Connor finds his most closely-held expectations thwarted.Faith Colburn's See Willy See is living proof that something new really can be done with a familiar story . . . . The something new is how Colburn turns [a World War II story] to address crucial and contemporary issues of character and values and how we read our own story . . . .