If she succeeds, her scattered family can finally return—with their heads held high as the patriots she knows in her heart they are.

    At the outbreak of WWII, with her father, an army general overseas, adolescent Jenifer musters her wits to housekeep for her large and lively family in the first of this famous series.

    Phyllis' adventures roughing it at camp are mixed with the thrills of solving an old family mystery. Time period is contemporary (1940s).