My Secret War Diary, by Flossie Albright

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People and organisations across the country are being asked for their help with this year’s Scottish Poppy Appeal. Whatever age you are you’ll live this insight to WWII from a child’s point of view and the little pull out bits are an added bonus!

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The light teen romance was sweet, and I especially appreciated that the relationship was built on friendship first. You can lift flaps, unfold programs, and take letters from envelopes as you read "My Secret War Diary!

We witness both the horrors of wartime and also the wonders of war -- how it gives people a sense of purpose and and often moves people to appreciate their loved ones.

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However, she also includes a anti-Japanese racial slur without comment, which could have been a teaching moment. Might be a good read for people who enjoy the American side of how they got into WWII and how things progressed an their home front. Rose Blanche was the name of a group of young German citizens who, at their peril, protested against the war. It does a great job of evoking the atmosphere and language of the times and describing what it is like to live in a time of hunger and rationing, constant fear of military invasion and loss of loved ones. After Flossie's father joins the army, the nine-year-old girl is left to care for both her baby brother and her great-uncle.This was a fictional diary made by a girl named Flossie Albright, and it takes place during WW2 in England. In another study, Agnew and Fox (2001) reported that many older children did follow the war as it unfolded at the time, often plotting troop movements on maps, therefore indicating that this type of diary may have been kept by some children. The children made find it easier to understand the effects of the Second World War by comparing their lives to that of Flossie Albright.

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On the other hand, it's pretty big (clunky) and long and some of the writing, in style and content, might present challenges to middle graders. Giving up teaching to paint, she studied watercolour at Richmond College and held some successful local exhibitions before a friend suggested that she took her work to show Walker Books. Life during wartime is vividly brought to life in this personal story filled with childhood memories – from hiding in air-raid shelters to playing in the bombed-out ruins and the arrival of American soldiers. The structure of the book makes it very engaging for children to read, it has flaps to open, letters to pull out of envelopes, its very colourful and the font of the text is written as the handwriting of Flossie Albright. This is my second Dear America reread as an adult, after loving the series as a kid, and this novel was exactly the book I was hoping it would be!If reading this with your child, I recommend reading alongside the Journal of Ben Uchida to build understanding of the experience of Japanese-Americans during WW2. One day she sees a little boy escaping from the back of a truck, only to be captured by the mayor and shoved back into it. With tears slowly trickling down my cheeks I replied, “Because cities are usually the first place where wars start and Edinburgh is a city, but don’t worry you won’t… you won’t be living in Edinburgh anymore”. Compared to the bleak and haunting experiences faced by Julie in One Eye Laughing, Maddie's homefront shenanigans felt frankly pointless.