Download or read book Annie s Doll written by Mary Ann Eiler and published by . This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1942 and the dark shadows of World War II are creeping closer to the Chicago home front. Six-year- old Annie sits crouched in a closet during a blackout drill, terrified that the airplanes will cross the Atlantic and bomb her home! More than anything else she wants a life-like doll "who could be my friend on scary nights like this." That Christmas she receives a baby doll as magical as the butterfly charm that a young Marine gives her before shipping out to the Pacific. She soon learns that Sugar Plum (she later re-names her Chabo) is no ordinary doll. When she looks at Chabo she seems to say, "If you don't play with me, I won't be real." But dolls can't really talk (or can they?)! As Annie struggles with the "bad facts" of war - rationing, newsreels of war-torn cities, gold star flags in the windows on her block, bombings in her grandma's hometown in Italy - she turns to Chabo for comfort. She even develops "doll talk" so they can have a conversation. Chabo takes part in neighborhood war games with her and Annie even adopts a "refugee doll" so Chabo can be part of the war effort. Chabo is introduced to Annie's schoolmate friend, Emile, "a war-guest," whose mom is fighting in the French Resistance. But when Annie is stricken with rheumatic fever, Chabo becomes part of her very soul. When Chabo later suffers a near fatal accident, Annie is challenged to develop "the faith that moves mountains" her grandma talks about. Annie's Doll pulses with life on the Chicago home front between 1942-1945, its sacrifices, loss of loved ones, fear, and courage. From listening to President Roosevelt's fireside chats on the tombstone radio, to stoking the coal burning furnace on a frigid night, to tedious Spam meals, the tension of D-Day, the street celebrations of V-E and V-J Day, it provides "time travel" to a bygone era The book also celebrates the creativity of play and the importance of imagination in the life of a little girl growing up in extraordinary times with an "extraordinary" doll. Annie's doll, Chabo, has a central role to the very end when she forms part of the wedding party of Annie's Royal Air Force pen pal and her favorite teacher. And when Emile returns to France, Annie cries and asks Chabo to promise never to leave her. Chabo has learned a lot in her short life as Annie's doll. But does she have enough "magic" to make a promise in her own little voice?
Download or read book Annie s Doll World War II on the Home Front written by Mary Ann Eiler and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2023-06-16 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six-year -old Annie is living a nightmare no one should have to endure alone. World War II is raging in Europe and in the Pacific, and though Annie is far from the front lines, she feels the horror of war on the home front: beloved neighbors are killed in action, her family hears of relatives suffering in Europe, and she sees war’s violence and destruction in weekly newsreels. Strict rationing and blackouts challenge her own daily life. Added to this, when Annie contracts rheumatic fever, she has “her own war to win” if she is to survive! But she has a constant companion – the chubby baby doll, a 1942 Christmas gift, --who helps her “fight” to get well and survive the heartaches of war. Everyone loves her doll, even her school-mate, Emile, a “war guest from France,” and her aviator pen-pal in the Royal Air Force. Inspired by her own recollections of World War II and the personal accounts of war veterans, Eiler has written a sobering reminder of the sacrifices of war as a tribute to The Greatest Generation, intended for children studying the war and adults alike. The doll opens a gateway to discussing difficult topics with children like hope and perseverance in the face of illness and crisis while the novel’s focus on magical play will interest doll and toy enthusiasts. In the novel’s “magical ending” Eiler offers a touch of whimsy. The war is over. The celebrations have ended. Not to be “outdone,” Annie’s doll makes her a promise the reader will hold dear – who said dolls can’t talk?
Download or read book Girls on the Home Front written by Milly Adams and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel in the wonderful Factory Girls series. Perfect for fans of Nancy Revell and Ellie Dean. 'A brilliantly written and uplifting WWII story' Nancy Revell, author of the Shipyard Girls series ‘A delightful authentic-feeling saga’ Peterborough Telegraph ‘Highlights the strength of women during the toughest of times…Clarke’s love and respect for her family’s roots really shines through’ Culture Fly 'Beautifully written, the warmth shines from every page and the layers are as deep and rich as the coal seams the men work upon.' Frost Magazine _________________________________________ August 1941: As war sweeps across Britain and millions of men enlist to serve their country, it’s up to the women to fight the battle on the home front. Fran always thought she would marry her childhood sweetheart and lead a simple life in Massingham, the beloved pit village she has always called home. But with war taking so many men to the front line, the opening of a new factory in the north-east of England presents an opportunity for Fran to forge a new path. Against her father’s wishes and with best friends Sarah and Beth by her side, Fran signs up to join the ranks of women at the factory. It’s dangerous work but as the three friends risk life and limb for their country, they will discover that their lives are only just beginning… ___________________________________________ Look out for the next book in the series, Heroes on the Home Front, available now!
Download or read book Davy Crockett s Riproarious Shemales and Sentimental Sisters written by Michael Lofaro and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary feats of Davy Crockett, who could tree a ghost, ride his thirty-seven-foot-long alligator up Niagara Falls, and drink up the Mississippi River, are common knowledge to devotees of this nineteenth-century comic superhero. But what may come as a surprise to many is that the legendary frontiersman also served as the fictional narrator of a collection of outrageous tall tales about women in the same Crocket Almanacs in which he "recorded" his own adventures. Conceived as a marketing device by nineteenth-century publishers hoping to gain a share of the lucrative almanac market, such stories made these slim volumes the best-selling and longest-running series of comic almanacs published in the United States before the Civil War. Booking back at them now, the Crocket Almanacs offer a true "fun house mirror" view of the culture of antebellum America.
Download or read book World War II U S Homefront written by Marty Gitlin and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book relays the factual details of the U.S. homefront during World War II. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a female bomber plant worker, an African-American worker, and a Japanese-American business owner.
Download or read book World War II on the Home Front written by Martin Gitlin and published by You Choose Books. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the home front during World War II. Readers' choices reveal various historical details.
Download or read book Heroes on the Home Front written by Annie Clarke and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: __________________________________ The second novel in the wonderfully uplifting Factory Girls series. Perfect for fans of Nancy Revell, Daisy Styles and Donna Douglas. 'Clarke’s tale is one to lift the spirits and touch the hardest hearts' NORTHERN ECHO __________________________________ December 1941, North East England: It takes courage to risk your life every day. Despite the recent loss of her father, Sarah is settling well into her new role at the munitions factory. Her blossoming romance with pitman Stan is a welcome distraction from the dangerous working conditions. But a shocking revelation is about to put everything on the line. Meanwhile Fran is desperately missing her sweetheart Davey, who has been conscripted to work at Bletchley Park. Beth is longing for someone too – and it’s not her husband on the front line... As the factory girls face hardship on the home front, they will discover that the heroes they need are already by their side. __________________________________ Look out for the next book in the series, Wedding Bells on the Home Front, available for pre-order now!
Download or read book Rosie the Riveter Women Working on the Homefront in World War II written by Penny Colman and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1998-02-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback--the award-winning account of how 18 million women, many of whom had never before held a job, entered the work force in 1942-45 to help the United States fight World War II. Their unprecedented participation would change the course of history for women, and America, forever. An ALA Best Book for Young Adult An ALA Notable Book A Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon Book An IRA Teachers' Choice A Junior Library Guild Selection An NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Award Winner for Outstanding Nonfiction A New York Public Library Best Book for the Teenager A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
Download or read book World War II Home Front written by Elizabeth Newbery and published by Pitkin Unichrome, Limited. This book was released on 2003 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More titles in the Children's Lookout! World War II Series Evacuees - Click Here Heroes - Click Here Home Front - Click Here
Download or read book Child s War written by Mike Brown and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, it came as no surprise to the children of Germany: the Nazis had been preparing them for a war ever since they had come to power in 1933. To British children it was an altogether different matter. Children all over Britain were deeply affected by the war: many were separated from their parents by evacuation or bereavement; all had to 'make do and mend' with clothes and toys; and some even died while contributing to the war effort at home. In this moving and often amusing account, Mike Brown describes what life was like on the Home Front during the war from a child's point of view. His fully illustrated narrative includes details of evacuation, rationing, coping with gas masks and air raids, entertainment and the important - and often dangerous - roles of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides. This photographic history pays tribute to the generation of girls and boys who grew up under the shadow of the Second World War.
Download or read book Air written by Peter Adey and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outside of yoga class, we don’t pay too much attention to the air we take in every day. Long one of the essential elements to life on earth—from the atmospheric composition that gave life to the coal-forming forests some three hundred million years ago to the air that fuels our most important technologies today—we think little of its incredible properties. In this innovative cultural and scientific history, Peter Adey takes stock of the great ocean of air that surrounds us, exploring our attempts to understand, engineer, make sense of, and find meaning in it. Adey examines how humans have managed and manipulated air as a natural resource and, in doing so, have been taken to the limits of survival, brought to high-altitude mountain peaks, subterranean worlds, and the troughs of new moral depths. Going beyond how vital air has been to our philosophical, scientific, and technological pursuits, he also reveals the way that the artistic and literary imagination has been lifted through air and how, in air, cultures have learned to express and inspire each other. Combining established figures such as Joseph Priestley, John Scott Haldane, and Marie Curie with unlikely individuals from painting, literature, and poetry, this richly illustrated book unlocks new perspectives into the science and culture of this pervasive but unnoticed substance.
Download or read book Aamie s War written by Marga Dieter and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bombs, destruction and emotional devastation form the background for Aamie's childhood on the homefront in Germany during World War II. What might seem crushing to most little girls is just everyday life for her. In a neighborhood where the walls are plastered with posters proclaiming 'THE ENEMY IS ALWAYS LISTENING!' and people live by the secrets they keep, any revelation of her mother's sentiments against the Nazis is a danger to her family's very survival. Yet Aamie with her Greek Chorus of celluloid dolls takes it all in stride with an irrepressible tom-boy spirit."-- from back cover.
Download or read book City Songs and American Life 1900 1950 written by Michael Lasser and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful look at the urban sensibility that gives the Great American Songbook its pizzazz.
Download or read book World War II U S Homefront written by Martin Gitlin and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Home Front in World War II written by Richard Clay Hanes and published by American Homefront in World Wa. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the life stories of 26 individuals who played key roles on the American home front during World War II.
Download or read book Children s Books in Print written by R R Bowker Publishing and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 1662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Complete Little Orphan Annie Volume 10 written by Harold Gray and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's spunkiest kid is hospitalized after a car crash, has to fight off a dope-pushing doctor, meets "Crazy Kate" (who's not all that crazy!), and helps the bearded old man named Zaney keep his secret formula out of Nazi hands. When America enters the Second World War, Annie protects the home front by forming the Junior Commandos, a group that inspired tens of thousands of real-life children to collect newspapers, scrap metal, and other items needed for the war effort. The fictional "Colonel Annie," meanwhile, finds herself face-to-face with fifth columnists and a Nazi submarine! Daddy Warbucks, true to his name, is back making munitions and leads a mysterious army overseas. This volume of The Complete Little Orphan Annie includes dailies and Sundays from November 24, 1941 through August 7, 1943.
