All the Stars in the Sky: The Santa Fe Trail Diary of Florrie Mack Ryder, The Santa Fe Trail, 1848 by Megan McDonald (2003). Share this article with your friends: Stay updated with WW2DB: - » 1, 127 biographies. I love historical fiction books about WW2 and have read quite a few that have taken place in many different places/countries. Checking series information... More Like This.
They went to the beach and found a bunch of Nazi things, and they reported it to the FBI. Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, an English Girl in Minnesota, New Yeovil, Minnesota, 1873 by Marion Dane Bauer (2002). It felt very true to early dating experiences when you're not sure how the other person feels about you. Hey there, book lover. Description in Dynix cataloging). Ayres, Katherine Voices. The world war ii diary of madeline beck main events manager. The book concludes with the Jews' return, after the war, to homes well kept for them by their neighbors. Otherwise, however, this has aged pretty well. From AudioFile: It's 1941, and Maddie Beck and her mother live on Long Island while her father, a Navy fighter pilot, is stationed in the Pacific.
They develop a friendship that helps Madeline through the toughest times, from the awful fear of losing her father to the tragic and terrifying bombing of Pearl Harbor. "My Secret War" paints a wonderful portrait of America in 1941. Id: ebook-pdf-adobe. She describes herself as a thick waisted (probably not true), gap toothed (gap between her front teeth), style-less young lady (because her skirt is longer, has no wide belt or penny loafers) who is generally shy and has a hard time making friends. Well, we had almost all of them. Don't know much about a science book? I liked this book because it showed me another side of the war. I loved this book when I was younger, and I can imagine that other children would be drawn to it as well. So unless it was unreasonably mild, Maddy and her friend should have been walking through snow, not riding their bikes everywhere with a bit of a nippy wind.
ReadFebruary 19, 2016. We all love to cook and bake, so when my daughter found a historical fiction book about the life and times of a girl during World War II, she was excited to read it. Account: - name: eMediaLibrary (IL). I looked at the ingredients and we had them all.
Has captured perfectly the cadences of 1940s speech and music in Johnny and Maddie's conversations. Rights: - type: Copying. Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903 by Kathryn Lasky (1998). When events separate him from his Jewish owners, he is adopted by a Nazi family and employed by the SS as a military dog. The author's choice to set the story in a boarding house gave her the opportunity to include an interesting range of characters as a "family unit" for Madeline, including Jewish German refuges. In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can. Did you like this book? It talks about leaving things behind and moving on with life when circumstances commands it. The author does very briefly treat harassment of people of Japanese ancestry, including mentioning internment camps. I, in my opinion, rate this book a five out of five. Five copies in other libraries.
Addison Public Library||0||0|. But a pair of German-Jewish refugees who also live in the boardinghouse hint at horrors yet to come. The My Name Is America books continue the same idea with boy instead of girl narrators. And Stanley makes sure we know Michelangelo had a vicious sense of humor, putting the face of a papal critic on a naked sinner struggling with a snake in hell, also in "Last Judgment. " A great series for boys and girls, Dear America is one of those rare contemporary series worth reading.
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 2012. by Lois Lowry ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, 1989. Instant Access - Audiobooks for Kids. Did you find this review helpful? Truly, one of my favorite titles in the "Dear America" series. Can't find what you're looking for? Hall, Donald The farm summer, 1942. Her mother rapidly fits in to their new community, but Maddie finds it difficult to make friends, until classmate (and crush) Johnny Vecchio learns that her father is in the Navy. Loved the story line and the epilogue!!! FileName: MySecretWar. I did not enjoy this book.
The book also deals with two historical facts. Out the truth about her brother. While on an ocean voyage to Canada to escape the air raids in his Liverpool home, twelve-year-old Jaimie Monaghan faces another kind of life-threatening situation. Her father was in the navy and was in the Pacific.
Works in the war effort in New York and his father serves. She crushes on her young boy friend, regaling him with tales of her father's bravery and heroism, but sometimes worrying that if he starts to like her in "that way" then she suddenly won't be free to be herself anymore. It was very easy to read, and rather short, but the story was very well thought out. This book got my attention because I like reading books about the past. Cannons at Dawn: The Second Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1779 by Kristiana Gregory (2011) (this is the sequel to The Winter of Red Snow and the first sequel in the series).
Maddie clearly undergoes a transformation as the book progresses, and I thought the book did a nice job of handling her budding relationship with Johnny. By focusing on writing good fiction as much as on evoking a particular historical period, the authors draw young readers in, creating characters that deal with the normal aspects of growing up as well as the turmoil of the Great Depression, the first Pilgrim winter, the Indian Wars, etc. Brings changes for eleven-year-old Tattnall as she. The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864 by Barry Denenberg (1996)*. Name: OverDrive Read. I'm not a huge fan of Mary Pope Osborne's Dear America books I'm afraid. The children who lived knowing that fathers and brothers might not be homing home.
Identifiers: - type: ISBN. Finally, here are two dictionaries that belong in school and home libraries: the "Scholastic Visual Dictionary" (224 pages, $21. Other young people see the impact of World War II on. This isn't your typical historical fiction. She does manage to make one friend, Johnny, a cute boy from her class who is keenly interested in the war, which Mad talks about as her father is in the military. Thought this book was well written, thought out & researched. Life without her hero at home, a little girls dad off at war fighting for their country's safety.
Pub Date: April 1, 1989.