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Loading... For the Duration: The War Years: A 26 Fairmount Avenue Bookby Tomie dePaola
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Tomie dePaola reveals some details of his boyhood while growing up in Connecticut during WWII. Young readers will experience the grown and development of an artist and feel the frustrations he felt from being so different. A sensative child who loved drawing, dancing and writing in his diary, he copes with the death of a favorite cousin, bullying by a brother and school mates as well as mishaps in preparation for the dance recital.. For the Duration is a biographical sketch it isjust a few months of second graders life growing up in an Italian and Catholic family during the 1940's. no reviews | add a review
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From gas rationing to air-raid drills, as long as the war lasts, life is going to be different for Tomie. And sometimes different is hard. Fortunately, Tomie still has school, his family, and the things he's good at to carry him through. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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