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2013

Format:	Book
Author:	Morrison, Joan.
Title:	Home front girl : a diary of love, literature, and growing up in wartime America / Joan Wehlen Morrison ; edited by Susan Signe Morrison.
Edition:	1st ed.
Publisher, Date:	Chicago : Chicago Review Press, ©2013 (Printed in the United States of America)
Description:	xix, 252 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary:	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.
Subjects:	Morrison, Joan -- Diaries. Morrison, Joan -- Childhood and youth. Schoolgirls -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Diaries. World War, 1939-1945 -- United States. Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. Chicago (Ill.) -- Biography.
Other Author:	Morrison, Susan Signe, 1959- editor. Chicago Review Press, publisher. PerfecType, book designer.
Notes:	Includes index. Includes 8 plates of photographs, as well as hand-drawn doodles from the diary and copies of handwritten pages. "Interior design: PerfecType"--Title page verso.
Contents:	1937: age 14 -- 1938: age 15 -- 1939: age 16 -- 1940: age 17 -- 1941 :age 18 -- 1942: age 19 -- 1943: age 20.
LCCN:	2012027068
ISBN:	9781613744574 1613744579
Other Number:	793574332
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Control Number:	650473
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Call Number:	BIO Morrison

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