Recalling her years on Oleron, an island that was part of Hitler's Atlantic Wall fortifications, Carlisle describes the Occupation from its early days to the harsh later stages of food shortages and forced labor.
The author recounts escapades from her own teenage years and reveals how many of those real-life people and events served as springboards for the fictional characters and plots in her nine young adult novels.
Picture book memoir of the author's boyhood in England during the years after World War II, capturing the details of the days of rebuilding and rejoicing.
The Puerto Rican-born author shares recollections of the bilingual, bicultural childhood she experienced, moving between her island home and New Jersey as a result of her father's Navy career.
