Some of the delightful elements in ‘My Secret War Diary’ by Marcia Williams Photo Source: Lisa Lacy Two young writers have been named the winners of Poppyscotland’s learning competition, My Secret War Diary. Maya's Entry.

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Across the country, hundreds of people are working tirelessly to prepare for Remembrance. Here are just a few of their stories. Two young writers have been named the winners of Poppyscotland’s learning competition, My Secret War Diary. Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical Moments Partly autobiographical, this is first of the internationally acclaimed trilogy by Judith Kerr telling the unforgettable story of a Jewish family fleeing from Germany at the start of the Second World War Fictional diary account of life in the Second World War, seen through the eyes of a young girl. Companion title to Archie's War.In the classroom you could use this book to show a child's perspective of what war looks like. You could also take parts of it and incorporate them into history lessons about the events. It was a normal day, or so I thought. I got up, I took a warm shower, I had eggs and bacon for breakfast, I was about to go to work and turned on the wireless. What I next heard from Neville Chamberlain made my jaw drop. I only remember him saying, “Britain is at war with Germany”. I had high hopes for this one because Mary Pope Osborne wrote Standing in the Light, one of my favorites in the series. However, My Secret War was just okay. I have mixed feelings about this one. I was surprised that the book is carefully measured in how the enemies are discussed. Maddie and her mother both think it's wrong that Japanese Americans have been imprisoned. However, parents should know that Maddie still uses a slur; it would be worth warning a child that this isn't acceptable language. Otherwise, however, this has aged pretty well. I'm always going to have complicated feelings about romanticizing war and nationalism, but I think Maddie realizes that war is not glamorous at all by the book's end. Two young writers have been named the winners of Poppyscotland’s learning competition, My Secret War Diary. - Liam McNamee

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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. Marcia lives in London and has two grown-up children and three grandchildren, one extra-large dog and a cat.This is an amazing book to read! I loved it so much. In my year 6 class we started a 'thematic' topic of World War 2. This book has so much details of the war that you could use it both for Literacy and History lessons. This is a historical fiction diary, in that it is written about an actual time and place in history but from the viewpoint of a fictional character. Many of the events in the book did actually happen, however the character of Flossie and her family and friends are fictional. This is a book about Flossie Albright who was a child in England during WWII. This diary was written by Flossie, in her words, about her time living and growing up during war time. The book is full of pictures, drawings, and advertisements that Flossie has cut out and pasted into "her diary". We follow Flossie during pre-war when there are rumors of war, during the days of war when there are refugees, shortages, bombings, and ups and downs, and finally to the end of war with celebrations, homecomings, and coming to terms with those that won't be coming home.

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This book is all about kindness, love and among all things hope. I highly recommend it to all readers young and old. Provide any other suggestions that would be useful regarding literary content, reading level, and other ways in which the book might be integrated: Tying neatly in with the primary curriculum, this is the perfect book for enthusing nine plus children to learn more about this fascinating period in our history. -- Independent Bookshop Week supplement * The Guardian * I walked into the living room to tell my wife the news. She was already miserable from the news about the war. When I told her she just sank into the couch. Marcia Williams began to develop her distinctive comic-book style at an early age: "When I was about ten and wrote home to my family from boarding school," she says, "I never wrote normal letters. I tried to tell my family about what I was doing in a way that was more fun. Also, my parents didn't let me read comic books, so I decided to create my own."I have to kind of roll my eyes about the plot line with the "beach discovery." If one good thing came from it, at least Maddie couldn't brag about it! But I tend to dislike the books in this series where the narrator somehow plays a huge role in a historical event. 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.

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Life without her hero at home, a little girls dad off at war fighting for their country's safety. This book is about a young girl and her struggles in everyday life worrying about her dad. She goes through her first crush with her neighbor friend Johnny. The young girl waits and waits everyday for her dad to send letters to her talking about how he is doing and how he will be fine and not worry. She works so hard to look out for her mom, and make sure she will be okay. She writes down in his diary about every single thing that happens in her life. Every single day is a worry waiting for her father to come home. 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. This is an absolutely beautiful book! Flossie is a young girl of I think eight or so when the second world war starts, and as the title states this is just basically her diary through to victory in 1945. It's simply written and has little non-war asides so her character really comes shining through. She lives in the country so her house of course ends up with evacuees from the city (and one German boy, Simon, who is another fabulous character) and land girls, she's far removed from the bombing action but not from the war itself - her mother died a year ago and now her father's off fighting so she has that fear that she and her baby brother (who we get to watch grow up) will end up orphans. That is what happened to Anna in 1933. She was nine years old when it began, too busy with her schoolwork and toboganning to take much notice of political posters, but out of them glared the face of Adolf Hitler, the man who would soon change the whole of Europe – starting with her own small life. All men over twenty years have to join the forces now, because we MIGHT go to WAR WITH GERMANY, but I still HATE Dad for going, I do, I flipping DO … except I don’t.’ (p6)She does manage to make one friend, Johnny, a cute boy from her class who is keenly interested in the war, which Mad talks about as her father is in the military. The first bit of the book is pretty much her talking about day to day life, trying to make friends, trying to not be jealous when Johnny goes out with someone else, sort of gossiping about the people she lives with. When the war breaks out, Madeline begins to shine. She and Johnny form a club at school to help with the war effort. They volunteer to watch for airplanes, collect tin, arrange exercise classes for students, and patrol the beach. It's all a bit boring really. that is until Madeline gets word that her father has been injured and is in hospital somewhere, critically injured. She has a bout of melancholy and drops everything in favour of sitting by the window and worrying. No club, no Johnny. People and organisations across the country are being asked for their help with this year’s Scottish Poppy Appeal.