about the book
Even though Eddie Carl is just a kid, he still thinks America should join in the fight against Hitler. It just seems plain right to him. He would go if he could, but he is too young, too young even to lie about his age. And the farm in Ellisville, Illinois, is a long way from the front lines.
In fact, the most interesting things that have ever happened in Ellisville are the time the bank got a new alarm and when gophers invaded the town graveyard.
Then Pearl Harbor happens, and America joins the war. And that means that Eddie’s older brother, Thomas, is going to become a bomber pilot. Now Eddie feels a lot closer to the war, and his childhood has become a lot more grownup than before.
For example, Eddie’s gypsy friend is accused of arson, setting the Strothers’ place ablaze. Then there is mean and stubborn Grampa Rob to deal with, and secretive Grama Lucy.
And there is Sarah, the redhead. Sarah, who Eddie knows for sure likes him. Or maybe hates him.
Eddie just wants to figure out what’s right, but in a town like Ellisville, that is like fighting a battle all of its own.
about the author
On her personal website, Carol Fisher Saller lists eleven things about herself.
For example, when she was just a toddler, Carol was scared of the fish on the family shower curtain. She and her biological brother and sister all have brown eyes, and they are married, each with two kids—one kid with brown, the other with blue eyes.
One of Carol’s summer jobs back in college was as a letter carrier. She had to carry around a heavy leather bag, and on the first day of the job she managed to faint on someone’s front porch.
Carol loves television.
Today Carol’s day job is being the senior manuscript editor at the University of Chicago Press. She also edits the online Q&A portion of the Chicago Manual of Style. Finally, she is also author of The Subversive Copy Editor.
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