Product Description: Harry “Dit” Sims and Emma Walker are the unlikeliest of friends. Emma, the educated twelve-year-old daughter of Moundville’s new postmaster, is all wrong as far as Dit’s concerned. Dit was told the new postmaster would have a boy his same age, not a girl...read more

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In a small town near Chicago in 1953, 12-year-old Tommy faces escalating problems at home, among his Catholic school friends and with the threat of a communist living nearby, but taking over his hospitalized sister's paper route introduces him to neighbors he comes to rely on for help. .