Here Come The Marines: Warkworth, 1943 (My New Zealand Story)
Author: Lorraine Orman
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: 17.99 NZD
: 9781775430766
: Scholastic New Zealand Limited
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: January 2012
: 198x128mm
: New Zealand
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: February 2011
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: Lorraine Orman
: My New Zealand Story
: Paperback
: Redesigned ed.
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: 823.3
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: 880
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: Black and white photographs
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Description
In late 1942 Margaret Glenmore realises that daughter Joyce, who is doing a secretarial course, will probably be manpowered into a war job soon, when the age limit is dropped to 18. Her other daughter, Lillian, is coughing a lot and an x-ray has shown a spot on her lung. Lillian needs to live in a healthy environment with lots of good food. These factors combine to make Margaret decide to send the girls to live with their grandparents on a small dairy farm on the coast. Lillian's diary begins in 1943 when she and Joyce travel north to Warkworth to stay with their grandparents. Neither girl is keen to go. But at the end of February the US troops arrive - all 5,000 of them - and life becomes more exciting!
Author description
Author Lorraine Orman was born in Auckland. She was educated at the University of Auckland, and completed her training as a librarian in Wellington in 1970. A career librarian, Orman worked in a secondary school library and a teachers’ training college library.
