My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck is the nineteenth book in Scholastic's Dear America series. It was written by Mary Pope Osborne and is her second book for the series. My Secret War was published in September 2000 and was followed by Barry Denenberg's One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping.
Dedication[]
- "To the memory of my father, Colonel William P. Pope, who served in the Pacific during WWII"
Book description[]
- "June 12, 1942
Tonight I got caught. I'm still shaking. I don't understand what happened, really. I was walking on the foggy beach... I heard voices and saw the shapes of two men near the dunes. I turned back to go home, but one of the men called out and shined a flashlight on me, and I froze like a rabbit.
The man angrily told me to halt and he asked who I was and where I lived. I told him my name was Madeline Beck and gave him my address. He ordered me to turn around. I did, and he walked up to me in the dark and shined the flashlight right in my eyes. When I started to turn away, he said, "Look straight into this light, Madeline Beck." And I looked into the light, and I was blinded, and he said, "We're the Coast Guard. You did not see us here. You saw nothing."
Plot[]
Epilogue[]
Historical Note[]
Characters[]
- Main article: List of My Secret War characters
Author[]
- Main article: Mary Pope Osborne
Editions[]
Audio[]
- Narrator: Claire Slemmer, Barbara Rosenblat
- Publisher: Live Oak Media
- Published: May 31, 2008[2]
- Running time: 3 hours and 8 minutes
- No. of discs: 3
- ISBN: 9781430103578[3]
Acknowledgements[]
- "I am deeply grateful to Robert Schnare, Jr., director of the Naval War College Library, for his tremendous research assistance; and to Tracy Mack, my editor, for her invaluable editing and inspiration."
Notes[]
- The portrait on the cover is a photograph licensed from SuperStock and the background from FPG International.[4]
References[]
See also[]
External links[]
- My Secret War at Scholastic (archive)
- Interview with Mary Pope Osbourne about My Secret War at Scholastic (archive)
- My Secret War Discussion Guide at Scholastic (archive)
- My Secret War at Teaching Books