GIRL IN A SLOPPY JOE SWEATER: LIFE ON THE CANADIAN HOME FRONT DURING WORLD WAR II Mary Peate Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1989. 202pp, cloth, $24.95 ISBN 0-88802-222-0. CIP Grades 11 and up/ Ages 16 and up Reviewed by J.D. Ingram. Volume 18 Number 1 1990 January "Yikes!" "Zhaves,""Snark Snark": these were some of the words making up the jargon typical of Mary Peate's teen years during World War II in Montreal. This book endeavours to recall a time and place that is now nearly fifty years past. The title refers to what the author and nearly every other girl wore - a Sloppy Joe sweater. It was several sizes too large and worn with the sleeves pushed up. There are several black-and-white photographs, advertisements of the time, and selected newspaper items from the author's scrapbook. Some have a direct connection to the text and others do not. Some of the newspaper articles are in very small print. All of these, however, do help re-create a teenager's wartime Montreal. The author includes conversations with parents and friends at the time. The concerns and the language show how times have changed, and yet many things remain "the same." This was a time of rationing, movies such as Casablanca, Frank Sinatra, Harry James, Glenn Miller, Anatomic shoes, and stenographic work. This book has some interesting parts to it but it did not sustain my interest. Girl in a Sloppy Joe Sweater will probably have limited appeal. J.D. Ingram, Gordon Bell High School, Winnipeg, Man.