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Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Bryant is not happy. Shes had to leave all her friends behind and move across the country for her dads job in the military. One hot summer evening during her first week in her new city, shes out killing time at a local garage sale when she spots a little soldier doll amid the junk. She thinks only that it might be a good last-minute birthday gift for her dad, whos about to ship out to Afghanistan. She doesnt realize that it might be a missing (and very valuable) historical artifact. With the help of Evan, the cute guy shes just met at a local used book store, Elizabeth discovers that the doll might be THE soldier doll: the inspiration for a famous World War I poem of the same name.

Elizabeths story is interwoven with the amazing, tumultuous story of the soldier doll itself. Fashioned with love by a father for his only child in England years ago, we follow the doll back to England during World War I, then on to Nazi Germany in the 1930s, a Czech concentration camp during World War II, Vietnam in 1970 and through the aftermath of 9/11.