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 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 Rosie the Riveter written by Penny Colman and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. When America's men went off to war in 1942, millions of women were recruited, through posters and other propaganda, to work at non-traditional jobs. In defense plants, factories, offices, and everywhere else workers were needed, they were--for the first time--well paid and financially independent. But eventually the war ended, and the government and industries that had once persuaded them to work for the war effort now instructed them to return home and take care of their husbands and children. Based on interviews and original research by noted historian Penny Colman,Rosie the Rivetershows young readers how women fought World War II from the home front.
Download or read book Children of the World War II Home Front written by Sylvia Whitman and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the experiences of children living in the United States during World War II, including writing V-mail to soldiers, participating in air raid drills, planting Victory Gardens, buying stamps for war bonds, and gathering cooking grease and scrap metal for making bombs.
Download or read book Letters from the Home Front written by Barbara Bannister and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years of being apart, cousins Carolyn and Patty are eager to catch up with each other at a relatives wedding. They bring the letters they exchanged during World War IIwhen they were childrenas a way to reminisce. As the women read through the letters, they are transported back to the American home front. When they begin writing letters, Carolyn has just moved from Nebraska to Oregon, and the two girls desperately miss each other. But their communication is soon overshadowed by the events of December 7, 1941, when Pearl Harbor is bombed. The tone of the letters changes as the girls grow preoccupied with the war. Patty tells Carolyn about how their Japanese American friends move to Canada to avoid being put into camps, while Carolyn expresses her relief that her father cannot enlist in the navy due to a blind eye. Whether they write about gas rationing and blackout regulations or saving money to buy war stamps, Carolyn and Patty reveal the wars impact on their lives. But as the two discuss the contents of the letters at their reunion, they realize just how much the war years shaped who they are as adults. Artfully switching between the past and the present, Letters from the Home Front is a charming novel of America during World War II.
Download or read book Women on the US Home Front written by Kari A. Cornell and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines the role of women on the US home front during World War II, focusing on the factory workers, volunteers, and service members who helped the Allies win the war. Compelling narrative text and well-chosen historical photographs and primary sources make this book perfect for report writing. Features include a glossary, a selected bibliography, websites, source notes, and an index, plus a timeline and essential facts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Download or read book Jennie s War written by Bonnie Hinman and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time Period: July 1943 - June 1944 Ten-year-old Jennie Fleming is doing what she can to help win a war-she's hoeing weeds in her "Victory Garden." In 1944, with the United States battling both Germany and Japan in a worldwide conflict, everyone must play a part in the overall war effort. Jennie's War uses actual historical events to tell the intriguing fictional story of a young girl on the "home front"-and her suspicions that a new man in the neighborhood might be a spy. The compelling reading makes it a favorite of eight- to twelve-year-old girls.
Download or read book The Home Front in World War II written by Pat Levy and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2003 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores life in various countries during World War II for the ordinary citizens who contributed to war efforts in factories and other venues and who, in come [sic] cases, experienced the horrors of war firsthand.
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 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 Annie s War written by Jacqueline Levering Sullivan and published by Eerdmans Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1946, imaginary conversations with President Truman help ten-year-old Annie cope with having to live with her grandmother in Walla Walla, Washington, her uncle's prejudice toward her grandmother's black tenant, and her intense desire for news of her father, a pilot in the Army Air Corps who was reported missing in action.
Download or read book Winifred Black Annie Laurie and the Making of Modern Nonfiction written by Katherine H. Adams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-25 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winifred Black worked in journalism from 1888 to 1936, often writing under the pseudonym Annie Laurie. Her work appeared in the Hearst papers--especially the San Francisco Examiner--and in fifty additional newspapers weekly through syndication. Black wrote 10,000 short pieces, as well as three books, a nonfiction oeuvre that combined quasi-autobiographical details with characters and scenes to provide cultural analysis for a nationwide audience. She wrote about the realities facing modern women--their work, their marriages and divorces, the violence they endured, their need for independence. Contemporary praise for Black named her "the world's most famous feature writer" and "one of the world's most successful reporters," while her critics affixed the pejorative labels "stunt girl" and "sob sister." This study covers her influential career and gives the first serious attention to her journalism and nonfiction.
Download or read book Alice at the Home Front written by Mardiyah A. Tarantino and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Providence, Rhode Island, at the height of World War II , feisty and intrepid eleven-year-old Alicewhose father and uncle are fighting in the waris determined to make her own contribution to the war effort. Despite her mothers disapproval, Alice dreams of gaining recognition as an airplane spotter. She works hard at learning to recognize US and enemy planes, hoping someday to earn a medal for sighting a German Messerschmitt. When she is not spotting planes, folding bandages at the Red Cross, or preparing the house for air raids, Alice daydreams she is a heroine, sitting in a cockpit patrolling the shores and reporting enemy subs with Jimmy, her former playmate, who has joined the Civil Air Patrol (CAP). Sometimes she trails potential spies through the city of Providence. One day, her fantasy world crumbles when she learns that Jimmys plane has disappeared in bad weather. As the days go by without news, Alice is devastated and angry at the CAP when they put off the search. Will they find Jimmys plane, and, if they do, will he still be alive?
Download or read book Snow Lane written by Josephine Angelini and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1985 Massachusetts, fifth-grader Annie wants to shape her own future but as the youngest of nine, she is held back by her hand-me-down clothing, a crippling case of dyslexia, and a dark family secret.
Download or read book Home Front Girl written by Joan Wehlen Morrison and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wednesday, December 10, 1941"Hitler speaks to Reichstag tomorrow. We just heard the first casualty lists over the radio. ... Lots of boys from Michigan and Illinois. Oh my God! ... Life goes on though. We read our books in the library and eat lunch, bridge, etc. Phy. Sci. and Calculus. Darn Descartes. Reading Walt Whitman now." This diary of a smart, astute, and funny teenager provides a fascinating record of what an everyday American girl felt and thought during the Depression and the lead-up to World War II. Young Chicagoan Joan Wehlen describes her daily life growing up in the city and
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:
