It was the 1940s .
Offering an extensive Discussion Guide at the end of the book, this historical fiction collection promises to be a great book club pick ..
Lovers of historical fiction , Baby Boomers , and high school English and History classes will be drawn into the characters\' lives and back into the 1940s.
Hear their voices.
Hear their stories.
Here are the Innocents at Home . . .
And more children tell their stories .
Nora contracts polio and fights for freedom to soar above the pain and confinement.
Addie falls in love with a German POW working on her father\'s farm.
Casimer hides from Nazis in a Polish cave with his family for many months.
Junior writes letters to his dad stationed at Pearl Harbor.
Nicolette discovers evidence of a British soldier living in her French mansion\'s attic.
These stories told through the eyes of children living in the United States, Poland, Germany, and France culminate in a multicultural anthology .
While the characters and narratives are fictional, all accounts are inspired by actual circumstances and events of the 1940s.
Here are their stories of war , internment , polio , tuberculosis , loss , bullying , prejudice , faith , love , resiliency , overcoming , and normalcy amid the abnormality of childhood during this decade.
Until now.
Children were to be seen and not heard.
It was the 1940s
