Grade 4.0; pts 1.

During World War II, nine-year-old Molly goes to school and with her friends tries to aid the war effort.

While her father is away fighting in World War II, Molly plans revenge on her brother for ruining her Halloween, and soon they've started a war of their own.

This is the inside story of the more than 8,000 recent college graduates who have joined Teach for America and committed two years of service to teaching in the nation's most troubled public schools. In the tradition of books by Studs Terkel, Ness combines interviews and essays from TFA members and alumni as well as principals, superintendents, parents, and noted education experts.

In 1934 Kit finds that she has hard lessons to learn about the Depression both at home, where she is helping her mother run a boarding house while her father looks for a new job, and at school, where a fight spoils the preparations for the Thanksgiving pageant.