A spunky 12-year-old girl, humiliated by falling behind a grade and relentless bullying, makes choices that go against her conscience as she struggles to survive her battles. Sometimes her personal war at Windsor School seems worse than World War II raging across the ocean.

“In 1944 the whole world was at war, and my uncle was drafted to fight against Hitler’s German army. When school started at Windsor that September, I never expected to fight my own war against Rusty-the-bully and Gertie, the World’s Worst Human.

When a school-wide war broke out, fought with rocks and nasty words, even my teacher joined in. With my life a combat zone, my mind turned into a battleground of worry.

My uncle’s letters stopped coming, and I worried he’d come home in a flag-draped casket. I worried about Lavender, who sometimes cooked snake for supper.

What was that family hiding in the woods behind the school? Finally, having made one horrible decision after another, I feared I’d be court-martialed and grounded for life when my parents found out. Or worse!”.