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Ackerman, Sara,

Radar girls / Sara Ackerman. - Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Mira, [2021] - 352 pages ; 21 cm

Inspired by the real women of the Women's Air Raid Defense, this extraordinary novel follows Daisy Wilder as she, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, enlists in a top secret program for civilians in the military, which takes her to wartime Hawaii where she finds love, courage, strength, and sisterhood. In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, Daisy Wilder enlists in a top secret program, replacing male soldiers in a war zone for the first time. Under fear of imminent invasion, the Women's Air Raid Defense (WARD) guides pilots into blacked-out airstrips and track unidentified planes across Pacific skies. Not everyone thinks the women are up to the job, and the new recruits meet resistance and heartache along the way. Determined to prove herself worthy-- and with the man she's falling for out on the front lines-- she cannot fail. She'll need her new team when the stakes are highest. -- adapted from back cover

ISBN: 9780778332046 0778332047

Subjects--Topical Terms:
World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Women --Hawaii --Fiction.
Women--Armed Forces --United States.--Fiction
Civil defense--Fiction.
Women soldiers--Hawaii --Fiction.
Civil defense--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Pearl Harbor (Oahu, Hawaii), Attack on, 1941--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Hawaii--Fiction.
Hawaii--History --Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
War stories.
Historical fiction.
Romance fiction.

LC Class. No.: PS3601.C554 / R33 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.6