A well-written young adult story, set in the rural Midwest during World War II. Margaret Ann resents her smart, pretty and popular English cousin, whose arrival with her mother as refugees from wartime England keeps her from getting her own bedroom at last. As the war goes on, young men volunteer or are drafted, and some are killed, wounded, or made prisoners of war. There's rationing, and difficulty getting enough men to do the farm work. There's also romance, sudden marriages and babies born whose fathers have already died in the war. Enough romance to satisfy young adult readers, and enough history that those young adults will learn something about this important part of American history.

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