Gibbon's Secrets: A Boy's Memories of the 40's

Bud is lying under a large elm tree with a full and showy form, turning the puffy clouds into animals or ships to pass the time of day, when he falls asleep. Suddenly, he feels a sharp pain in his foot and cringes in fright when this ruggedly built man kicks him again. The man, towering above him, is blonde, tall, and wide of shoulders. He has arms like slabs of ham, and he has steely-blue eyes. He reaches down to pick up Bud, who quickly rolls over and runs out of the park, across the street to his home . . . This is the start of Bud's experience with the Stranger. Gibbon has just been through the Great Depression, and now the ugly head of World War II is here . . . and Bud wonders - how will we cope? Gibbon's citizens, as well as all the citizens of the United States are shocked into this reality of World War II with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. "Gibbon's Secrets" is really a boy's memories of growing up during the 1940's and contains many of the everyday happenings of how it was back then in this small town in the middle of Nebraska smack dab in the middle of the United States. The book is a combination of real history mixed with an assortment of ficition relative to the time frame of the 1940's.