My Secret War Diary, by Flossie Albright

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Marcia Williams follows a young girl's coming of age during World War II in a moving fictional journal that includes the author's own family mementos. 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. Maddie clearly undergoes a transformation as the book progresses, and I thought the book did a nice job of handling her budding relationship with Johnny. It felt very true to early dating experiences when you're not sure how the other person feels about you. They were super cute together.

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People and organisations across the country are being asked for their help with this year’s Scottish Poppy Appeal. Suppose your country began to change. Suppose that without your noticing, it became dangerous for some people to live in Germany any longer. Suppose you found, to your complete surprise, that your own father was one of those people. 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.

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Extracts such as this demonstrate the effectiveness of this book in being able to draw the reader into Flossie’s life, feel empathy towards her and at the same time, perhaps gain a sense of what it would have felt like to have to put your baby brother into a gas suit. As a primary teacher, I would be very happy if a book had this effect. Michael Foreman’s award-winning memoirs about his wartime childhood. ‘I woke up when the bomb came through the roof. It came through at an angle, overflew my bed by inches, bounced up over my mother’s bed, hit the mirror, dropped into the grate and exploded up the chimney.’

My Secret War Diary, by Flossie Albright by Marcia Williams My Secret War Diary, by Flossie Albright by Marcia Williams

a few inaccuracies, for example, in the 1930s children had to have birth certificates and a child couldn't go unnamed for a year. This is the war diary of 'Flossie Albright' who is a child living away from London with her Uncle, baby brother and for a while her dad (who joins the army). Flossie records what life is like/what happens to her during WW2. Flossie also experience evacuee's living with her. Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas. With BRAVO, MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE! and TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE Marcia Williams introduces young readers to the world of William Shakespeare's plays. Another classic she has made much more accessible to children--and more appreciated by them--is THE ILIAD AND THE ODYSSEY. "My mother read me classics, but until I got older I never found them interesting," she says. "If I could make these stories more accessible, I realized, kids wouldn't have to wait until they were grown-up to appreciate them."A really lovly book. A really easy and personal way for children to access a very difficult subject.