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It's World War II, and Wendall Oler is on his way to Steb binsville, Vermont, to spend the war with his father's family. A curious, belligerent, unhappy boy, Wendall resents the fact that his mother has died and that his father has left him to fight overseas, and he looks upon this visit as a means of revenge. He steals money from his grandmother, torments two elderly spinster sisters who attempt to be kind to him, and alternately befriends and tyrannizes his young cousin Tom. Then, a funny thing happens. Thrown into the warm bosom of the Oler clan, Wendall finds his own heart softening ISBN:0393305694
