Books with title Don't You Know There's a War On?

Newbery Award-winning, New York Times best-selling author Avi recreates the sights and sounds of wartime Brooklyn in this fast-paced story. Like every student in Miss Gossim’s 1943 fifth-grade class, Howie Crispers has one thing on his mind: World War II. When he isn’t in school, Howie stays busy watching for Nazi spies. So when he notices his principal acting suspiciously, it’s his patriotic duty to investigate. But what he discovers is far more devastating than any headline at the newsstand.

World War II is on everyone's mind and in every headline, and Howie Crispers has a hunch that his school principal is a spy. With a little snooping around, Howie finds out something even more alarming. Principal Lomister may not be a spy, but he is plotting to get rid of Howie's favorite teacher. Howie's dad is fighting Nazis overseas, and his mom is working hard to support the war effort, so Miss Gossim is the only person Howie can depend on. With the help of his friends, and a plan worthy of radio show superhero Captain Midnight, Howie intends to save Miss Gossim!

The tragic events of September 11, 2001 brought to the surface memories of an earlier time of unprecedented national emergency—Pearl Harbor—and America's subsequent involvement in World War II. In this evocative cultural history, Richard Lingeman re-creates the events—historic, humorous, and tragic—and personalities of the American home front. From V-girls and V-mail, blackouts and the internment of the Japanese, to new opportunities for African-Americans and women, Lingeman recaptures a unique time in American history in this New York Times Notable Book.

World War II is on everyone's mind and in every headline, and Howie Crispers has a hunch that his school principal is a spy. With a little snooping around, Howie finds out something even more alarming. Principal Lomister may not be a spy, but he is plotting to get rid of Howie's favorite teacher. Howie's dad is fighting Nazis overseas, and his mom is working hard to support the war effort, so Miss Gossim is the only person Howie can depend on. With the help of his friends, and a plan worthy of radio show superhero Captain Midnight, Howie intends to save Miss Gossim!

‘A wonderful act of respect for a generation, now too often sidelined, who have within them stories to make you hair curl’ Times Educational Supplement Don’t You Know There’s a War On? is a uniquely personal portrait of a nation fighting to keep going, seen through the eyes of 35 men and women who experienced life on the home front in Britain during the second world war. They talk eloquently to Jonathan Croall about the deprivations and suffering as well as the exhilaration and community spirit they experienced, in city and countryside, in homes, schools and offices, and on the land. In a world of rationing, blackout, bombs and ‘making do’, many offer vivid descriptions of shattered family lives, of interrupted schooling, of the perils of evacuation, of the vital work done by women, and of the extraordinary pressures they faced simply to survive. Others tell what it was like to be out of step with the majority and, for conscientious objectors, to go to prison for their beliefs.‘…will give younger generations a vivid sense of what the experience of those years might have been like…’ Angus Calder, author of The People’s War ‘…gem-like interviews…’ Peter Martin, The Times

The Second World War is over. England is losing its empire, world status and old elite values. The Empire strikes back with mass immigration, while the government soothes its people with welfare, the NHS, televisions and refrigerators. At the centre of the novel is the contemptuous Joan Kite, at odds with all the changes imposed on the country in the post war period. Shut up in a house with her only daughter, she refuses to compromise and adapt, pouring vitriol on anyone who seeks to enter their lives. After years of frugality, patriotism, service and excitement, she is angry at the contracted existence she’s been delivered and at the manner in which her aspirations to upper-middle-class culture have been thwarted. When her daughter is threatened, she begins a diary to investigate her past before and during the war. In it she gives rein to a flamboyant imaginary life and to an energetic loathing for the reality of a diminished England. During the freak hot summer of 1976, as water is rationed and ladybirds invade their home, the intimacy of mother and daughter intensifies. Their lives unravel within the claustrophobia of their semi-detached house behind closed velvet curtains.

December 7, 1941 brought about a cataclysmic change to America. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor catapulted the country into a global war that every one expected, but still caught most people by complete surprise. Within a matter of months, the country was transformed into the greatest arsenal of war the world has ever seen. Over 16 million men and women served in uniform while nearly four times that number became citizen volunteers on the home front."Don't You Know There's A War On?" is a trip down memory lane during those challenging years when an entire nation went to war. Every man, woman, and child was called into service, and few, if any, refused the call. This book is not just about volunteers and sacrifice. It also tells the story of one of the nation's best kept secrets in the Navy's incredible "V-5" program, the story of an airplane called "Stubborn Hellion," the Japanese "balloon bombs," and the bombing of Oregon by an ingenious Japanese plan that almost worked."Don't You Know There's A War On?" is a delightful read about those momentous days during World War II when America was forever changed by what many historians describe as the defining event of the 20th century.

World War II is on everyone's mind and in every headline, and Howie Crispers has a hunch that his school principal is a spy. With a little snooping around, Howie finds out something even more alarming. Principal Lomister may not be a spy, but he is plotting to get rid of Howie's favorite teacher. Howie's dad is fighting Nazis overseas, and his mom is working hard to support the war effort, so Miss Gossim is the only person Howie can depend on. With the help of his friends, and a plan worthy of radio show superhero Captain Midnight, Howie intends to save Miss Gossim!

"Seen through the eyes of a young boy, these [are] strikingly faithful memories of the home front during World War II....The boy wants to help win the war; he collects tin foil and tin cans, buys war stamps, and plants a victory garden....But anxious times to come, too. His father goes into the army, and the boy misses him terribly....Stevenson is adept at presenting the unsettling mixture of the humorous, the day-to-day, and the serious moments....A splendid evocation of the past; a wonderful book....for everyone to share."--Horn Book.

Norma Halvin, a just turned eighteen-year-old does not like change. Like it or not, the start of World War II will profoundly affect Norma and her entire family. Her twin brother's John and Jerry enroll in the Army right away. Everyone in her town, Pontelray, Michigan wants to do their part, including Norma. Mrs. Waters, her mother's best friend has offered Norma a riveting job at the bomber plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Norma has been protected all her life from every danger, every scrape and bump. She almost turns the job down until her parents begin talking about her, in front of her as if she was not even there. They were going to move to Arizona so her father would have better air to breathe to help his asthma. As they discuss whether or not to take her with them, Norma finds her voice and her courage. She will take that job to do her part to help America win the war. Along the way, she discovers she is a heroine. Arriving at work early one morning, Norma bolts out of the car and runs to a burning shack to help save a sleeping family inside it. Norma's new job introduces her to Betty, her new best friend and riveting partner. Betty, who has raised herself from the age of fifteen, has big plans of becoming a motion picture actress. She plans to move to Hollywood California and she wants Norma to go with her.