Summary Of My Secret War By Madeleine Beck

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This dear America book is called my secret war, a diary of 13 year old Madeleine Beck taking place in 1941. At the start of the book it talks about how Maddie's father is a Navy officer and is on an aircraft carrier protecting the Pacific. She is now living in Long Island, New York. She is having trouble making friends and likes this boy in her class johnny. She and johnny become friends because he thinks it's so cool that she has a dad in the navy. Once she and Johnnie become friends, after the Pearl Harbor attack they start a war club called K3F. K-3 F stands for kids fighting for freedom. She befriends the other boarders in her house and is very encouraged for her and her mother to help in the war effort on home soil because she …show more content…
A guy walked up with a dog and said "it's a beautiful day huh?" She said yes sir, and he said "a nice day for not ending up in jail for breaking the law huh"she said "yes sir". She then later that day said for johnny to come overture house to discuss something in Porten he came over and asked what was going on she prom to her room and said what happened that night he said they should probably go check it out. They went and checked it out and found a pile of seaweed of very high the short they wondered how it got there they moved it out-of-the-way and there was a lot stuff as in hats with swastikas and German cigarettes. They went and asked Theo a guy from there boarding house and asked what he would do if that happened and he said he would call the FBI. He gave them the FBI phone number and said to show it to the k3f club. They acculy used to call the FBI's phone number and got on the lime of the agent they told himwhere is the Nazi stuff they found work and told him that this is a call from anonymous. I he next day in the newspaper and said that they found Nazis from U-boats on their beach and they caught them I hinted call from anonymous tip thousand Zack location of the Nazis. Then they got a call from the nurse at the hospital with her dad and she said they're sending him back for a full recovery but he probably won't be able to do what he's doing before in the Navy. But he's going to be moved to a hospital in

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