When nine-year-old Flossie starts her diary and scrapbook on July 27, 1939, her mother has already died and her father has just joined the Dorsetshire Regiment. The Second World War ends for Flossie on August 14, 1945, when her father comes home.

• ISBN: 9780763641115
• Author: Williams, Marcia
• Published: 2008, Candlewick
• Themes: Diary, Hardship, War, World War II
• Descriptors: England (UK), Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14)
• No. of pages: 144