In 1944, while her brother is overseas fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Margaret gets a new view of the school bully Gordy when she finds him hiding his own brother, an army deserter, and decides to help him.

When he and his younger sister move in with their older brother after their grandmother dies, thirteen-year-old Gordy finds himself caught between the boy he was when he lived with his abusive father and the boy his grandmother was helping him become. In the third title in Mary Downing Hahn's acclaimed series, Gordy thought he had left his old hometown behind him once and for all, but his troubles there are beginning all over again. In North Carolina,...