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Morrison, Joan Wehlen

Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America

252 pp. | Chicago | November, 2012 | Trade ISBN 978-1-61374-457-4 $19.95
(3) YA Edited by Susan Signe Morrison. This transcribed diary captures the everyday interests and worries of Joan, an academically minded, politically interested teen at the dawn of World War II. In entries written between age fourteen and twenty, Joan is equally likely to fret over homework, relay the latest news from Europe, or chat about boys and friends. An impressive historical document with a dynamic narrator. Ind.
Reviewer: Jessica Tackett MacDonald

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