Forced by the Great Depression to move back into Dorothy's childhood home--a disintegrating dairy farm--Dorothy and Ed Beane brave the trials presented to them by poverty, the Second World War, their son's absence, and their daughter's move to Califo...
Well-insulated from an outside world riddled by war, the children of a history professor romp through the campus of a Massachusetts private school and develop special friendships that will last for years to come...