I'll Be Looking at the Moon

Maggie's secret correspondence with her best friend's navy brother has been her connection to the war. Maggie doesn't want to be thought of as a liar, but sometimes she finds that's the only way she can get things done, things that need be done, like getting the church canteen started. That hasn't worked out too well since only a few soldiers are showing up. Joe, the pianist who accompanied her and Annabel when they sang at the Fort Knox hospital, said he would come by but he hasn't. She never expected her occasional dishonesty and manipulative schemes would come back to haunt her. Nor did she believe her secret would be exposed in a humiliating and hurtful way. I'll Be Looking at the Moon provides an inside look into Maggie's rapidly changing world.
Now Maggie thinks people may be accusing Grandpa Boehler of being a Nazi sympathizer just because he has a German accent. That's discrimination! And colored people have to stand outside to buy movie tickets just because of the color of their skin, even when it's raining. Somebody needs to protest discrimination, don't they? Maybe she could do it. But how? Shirley Baechtold's fascinating novel depicts 1940s wartime America, when radios provided news of the warfront thousands of miles away.