My Secret War Diary, by Flossie Albright

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grammatical errors. Flossie appears to be a bright child and well trained at the village school. Although, she might have spoken with grammatical errors, I doubt that "ain't" would have reached her writing. Across the country, hundreds of people are working tirelessly to prepare for Remembrance. Here are just a few of their stories.

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When Erik strikes up an unlikely friendship with German Radar operator, Hans, the pair soon become involved in a race against time to help destroy the Nazi warship, Tirpitz. Provide any other suggestions that would be useful regarding literary content, reading level, and other ways in which the book might be integrated:Fictional diary account of life in the Second World War, seen through the eyes of a young girl. Companion title to Archie's War.

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Marcia Williams' mother was a writer and her father was a playwright and theatre director. She spent the early part of her life in Canton, Hong Kong, Nigeria and the Middle East with her mother and diplomat stepfather. She loved books from an early age and remembers being read to almost every night; "I would often be scared, especially by fairy tales, but I never wanted the stories to end." She went to boarding school in Sussex, from where she sent weekly illustrated letters to her parents overseas. Marcia didn't receive any formal art training. She calls herself "an obsessive illustrator. I've just always done it. I never consciously thought: that's what I want to do." She had a number of jobs, including nursery teacher, which is when she developed her taste for story-telling to young children; "I learnt what they found accessible and what they enjoyed." 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. Following Archie's War, which recorded in diary form the First World War home-front experience of a ten year old, Williams now turns to Archie's daughter, Flossie Albright. All men over twenty years have to join the forces now, because we MIGHT go to WAR WITH GERMANY, but I still HATE Dad for going, I do, I flipping DO … except I don’t.’ (p6)Dear Diary, I’m right upset – Boo’s too little for a proper gas mask, so he’s got a sort of suit thing that I have to pump air into. I think I might kill him if I don’t do it right. Uncle C says not to worry – he’ll do it – but what if he’s not there? Boo hates the flipping thing and screams at the sight of it. I thought of letting Auntie Beth take him after all, but she don’t love him like I do. I miss my mum and dad so much. Her "voice" was very well done. Flossie seemed real. I did not know that "flipping" had ever been a British swear word. ;]

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We will commemorate Remembrance Sunday this year at the Stone of Remembrance, Edinburgh City Chambers. Wreaths will be laid by the Lord Provost, representatives from the Scottish Government, UK Government and the wider Armed Forces and Veterans community to remember our fallen at 1100 hours on Sunday 12th November 2023.

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! Maddie's father is in the Navy during WWII and she and her mother, who move often, live in a boarding house in Long Island, New York.