Life in small-town America during World War II�springs vividly�to life�as schoolteacher Miss�Dimple and her fellow townspeople battle valiantly against worry, rationing, and crime
at home as well as abroad.
It's September 1943, and the town of Elderberry, Georgia, including their beloved first-grade teacher, Miss Dimple Kilpatrick, has exciting plans for the Bond Rally to
support the troops fighting the war abroad. Miss Dimple's friend, Virginia Balliew, has agreed to chair the big event, with the help of�Buddy Oglesby. But when children discover a
skeleton at the edge of a field, and�Buddy disappears along with the war bond money, it's clear that something is amiss in the little town; and Miss Dimple, along with her fellow
teachers, is soon on the case.
