Title: The unexpected weapon
Description: In St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1927, thirteen-year-old Tootie McCarthy makes a new friend, Joey Staddler, and together they show up the conniving street preacher who has duped Tootie's older sister into joining him.
Subjects: Irish Americans, Christian life, Family life, Fiction, Schools, Families, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Girls, fiction, Irish americans, fiction