Five Stars in the Window: Growing Up during World War Two - Couverture souple

Komarnicki, David

 
9781544172385: Five Stars in the Window: Growing Up during World War Two
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1544172389 ISBN 13 : 9781544172385
Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

The city of Chester, Pennsylvania, is pulsing with activity during World War Two, grinding out ships, planes, and helicopters at record rates to fuel the fight against Hitler and Hirohito. Its winding streets are a patchwork quilt of ethnic neighborhoods, and families are displaying stars in their windows to show that they have sons or fathers off serving their country. There are five stars in the window of the house young David lives in, representing four of his seven brothers and the husband of one of his two sisters. While he prays daily for their safe return, David peddles newspapers to the shift-workers at the war plants, dodges the local traffic cop who tries to interfere with his shoeshine business, hookies school to hear Louis Armstrong in Philadelphia, dazzles his classmates with his yo-yo prowess, downs the pierogi and halupki his Ukrainian-born mother dishes up by the dozens, and does his best to negotiate adolescence on the home front.

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Éditeur
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1544172389
ISBN 13 
9781544172385
Reliure
Broché
Illustrateur
Komarnicki Amy
Nombre de pages
222
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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