Voices at Whisper Bend

✍ Scribed by Katherine Ayres

• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 353 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

At the outbreak of World War II, a twelve-year-old girl comes up with an idea to help the war effort
America has just entered World War II, and everyone in Charlotte Campbell's family is doing his or her part, either abroad or in the Pennsylvania factory town where the Campbells live. Charlotte's brother Jim has enlisted in the navy, and her mother works in Braddock's local war plant. Her dad guides tugboats filled with supplies up the Monongahela River. Eager to contribute to the war effort—besides saving to buy defense stamps—Charlotte organizes a scrap metal drive like the ones all over the country. She and her sixth-grade classmates start collecting old junk and soon have so much that they have to store it in the school basement . . . until someone steals all the metal.

Charlotte is determined to find the thief and get back the precious scraps. Her younger brother Robbie supplies a list of potential suspects, from the school janitor to a...