Title: The war at home
Description: Living in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where her father is involved in a secret government project in the final months of World War II, thirteen-year-old Mattie carries on a constant debate with her twelve-year-old cousin Virgil about the relative merits of boys versus girls.
Subjects: Cousins, Fiction, Sex role, World War, 1939-1945, New York Times reviewed, Children's fiction, Sex role, fiction
Places: Oak Ridge (Tenn.), United States