World War II is on everyone's mind and in every headline, and Howie Crispers has a hunch that his school principal is a spy. With a little snooping around, Howie finds out something even more alarming. Principal Lomister may not be a spy, but he is plotting to get rid of Howie's favorite teacher. Howie's dad is fighting Nazis overseas, and his mom is working hard to support the war effort, so Miss Gossim is the only person Howie can depend on. With the help of his friends, and a plan worthy of radio show superhero Captain Midnight, Howie intends to save Miss Gossim!
World War II is on everyone's mind and in every headline, and Howie Crispers has a hunch that his school principal is a spy. With a little snooping around, Howie...
... 139–40 Bricker , John , 348 Brisson , Carl , 282 Britt , Elton , 79 Broadway theater , 286 ff . ... 314 , 317 Brooks Brothers , 16 Brown , Cecil , 223–24 Brown Derby , 174 Brown , John Mason , 287–88 Brown , Johnny Mack , 180 Brown ...
In wartime Brooklyn in 1943, eleven-year-old Howie Crispers mounts a campaign to save his favorite teacher from being fired.
World War II is on everyone's mind and in every headline, and Howie Crispers has a hunch that his school principal is a spy.
Including domestic phrases of the time, propaganda, and slang developed by soldiers abroad, the book describes the provenance and development of these intriguing, quirky and sometimes crude phrases that were born out of times of conflict ...
But anxious times to come, too. His father goes into the army, and the boy misses him terribly....Stevenson is adept at presenting the unsettling mixture of the humorous, the day-to-day, and the serious moments.
As he did in his classic autobiographies When I Was Nine, Higher on the Door, and July, Stevenson continues to answer the perpetual question, "What was it like when you...
Here is a personal portrait of a nation at war, with contemporary photographs, diaries, letters, poems, and other memorabilia belonging to the men and women whose wartime lives are featured.
Don't You Know There's a War On
This is not a book which sets out to expound the glories of war, nor does the author pretend that these were the best years of his life.