How do you make a banana split? The answer? Step on it. That is one of the jokes ten-year-old Bobby Benson and his dad, fighting in Germany in this last year of WWII, send in their letters.
Wishing You Home begins with the news that Bobby's best friend's dad has been killed in the war. Bobby's fear for his own dad's safety increases.

Eunice Boeve has authored nine historical fiction books, articles for Montana Magazine, and children's stories for various publications and organizations. Her books have won recognition by the Kansas Author's Coffin Award, Kansas Reading Circle Books, Kansas Notable Books, and the governor of Kansas. In 2016, she received local recognition for her writing and was named Fort Bissell person of the year.A stay-at-home parent while her children were young, she then worked as a speech paraprofessional in a school for special needs children and then in the family funeral home. She started a library based around the subject of death and dying at the funeral home and helped bereaved families and individuals choose books that best suited their needs. She retired with her husband in 1999.