Home Front Girl : : a Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing up in Wartime America
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Call Number: Teen 921 Morrison, Joan
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Includes index.
Includes 8 plates of photographs, as well as hand-drawn doodles from the diary and copies of handwritten pages.
"Interior design: PerfecType"--t.p. verso.
1937: age 14 -- 1938: age 15 -- 1939: age 16 -- 1940: age 17 -- 1941 :age 18 -- 1942: age 19 -- 1943: age 20.
This is the diary of a smart, astute, and funny teenager, making a record of what an everyday American girl thought and felt during the Depression and the lead-up to World War II. This is an important primary source on the late 1930s and early 1940s.--From the publisher.
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PUBLISHED
Chicago : Chicago Review Press, c2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: 252 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781613744574
1613744579
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Morrison, Susan Signe, 1959-
Chicago Review Press.
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SUBJECTS
Morrison, Joan -- Diaries.
Morrison, Joan -- Childhood and youth.
Schoolgirls -- Chicago -- Diaries.
World War, 1939-1945.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Biography.