"Daddy said that nobody really wins a war. They only make it look that way." Teenager Milla Jaeger questions the war and the rules that war triggers. She misses her family's life in the Wisconsin countryside before the move to Tralmer's Trailer Camp near Milwaukee. Milla resides with her parents and her kid sister in what their mother has labeled the "six-by-fourteen-foot-cracker-box-on-wheels." While World War II-the Big War-rages overseas, war-weary civilians on the home front endure sacrifices as they experience their own conflicts, the Little Wars. As Milla enters high school, she clings...