My Wartime Summers
(Farrar, Straus iroux)

"The radio! We all loved the radio. And the people in the programs I faithfully listened to every week were as real to me as anyone I actually knew. Captain Midnight. Fibber McGee and Molly. Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy. . ."

  

A Notable Trade Book in Social Studies, 1994
My Wartime Summers is a funny, sensitive coming-of-age story about a tomboyish and impulsive girl and her experiences growing up in the midwest during WW II.

Reviews
Booklist: (starred review): " (A) funny, sensitive novel about an American child's experience at home during World War II..."
Bulletin for the Center for Children's Books: "Ellen...is a charismatically headstrong narrator..."

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