Judith Pinkerton Josephson
Growing Up In World War II: 1941-1945
eBook
(eFrog Press Dec. 10, 2018)
War affects children, no matter where in the world it’s waged or what countries are involved. Sometimes it leads young people to serve and do extraordinary things. On the morning of December 7, 1941, Verna Morimatsu, age seven, had been playing outside when she noticed strange planes flying toward Pearl Harbor. When she entered her house, she heard a huge crash and found a gaping hole left by an unexploded bomb that had fallen through the roof and dining room floor, leaving splinters strewn about, and the furniture in pieces. An attack on Pearl Harbor had begun.
In this newly revised ebook version of the original print book, discover what life was like for American children during World War II through true stories of young people who lived through this time. The people readers will meet in this book are real. Even their names—Dorinda, Verna, Eugene, Florence, Jody, Leroy, Fred, Marjorie, Vina, Jean, Martha, Martin, Dot, John, Marialyse, Neal, Nancy, Robert, Sammy, Paul, and Susan—offer clues about the era in which they were young. Faced with the possible loss of fathers, brothers, uncles, and friends fighting overseas, young people did their best to help out at home. They collected scrap metal, saved money to buy war bonds, planted Victory Gardens, and learned to do without things like sugar, butter, new shoes, and bicycles. Some welcomed children from other countries, sent by their parents to escape the fighting. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, many innocent Japanese American children and their families were forced to leave their homes and businesses and were sent to internment camps, despite being U.S. citizens. Children who lived through World War II never forgot. As adults, they found that the war changed their lives forever.
Written for middle grade readers and up, Growing Up in WWII makes this now “long ago” war real to young people and challenges them to think about patriotism, sacrifice, and the impact of history. The many photographs of children and primary source documents like letters, maps, posters, and even recipes bring the period of 1941 to 1945 to life.
In this newly revised ebook version of the original print book, discover what life was like for American children during World War II through true stories of young people who lived through this time. The people readers will meet in this book are real. Even their names—Dorinda, Verna, Eugene, Florence, Jody, Leroy, Fred, Marjorie, Vina, Jean, Martha, Martin, Dot, John, Marialyse, Neal, Nancy, Robert, Sammy, Paul, and Susan—offer clues about the era in which they were young. Faced with the possible loss of fathers, brothers, uncles, and friends fighting overseas, young people did their best to help out at home. They collected scrap metal, saved money to buy war bonds, planted Victory Gardens, and learned to do without things like sugar, butter, new shoes, and bicycles. Some welcomed children from other countries, sent by their parents to escape the fighting. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, many innocent Japanese American children and their families were forced to leave their homes and businesses and were sent to internment camps, despite being U.S. citizens. Children who lived through World War II never forgot. As adults, they found that the war changed their lives forever.
Written for middle grade readers and up, Growing Up in WWII makes this now “long ago” war real to young people and challenges them to think about patriotism, sacrifice, and the impact of history. The many photographs of children and primary source documents like letters, maps, posters, and even recipes bring the period of 1941 to 1945 to life.
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