Used book - A Little Story of War, Jerome Charyn

New York, 1943. War rages in Europe and throughout the Pacific. Jack is eleven and a half years old, the best student in his class, the champion of essays, but what he wants is to enlist, to fight, to be a soldier... When his little "fiancée," Mauricette, prefers a classmate, Jack sees red and runs away. He then enters a dangerous world, that of the tramps in the nearby park, and discovers violence, extortion, fear... But Jack will know how to defend himself. With his own weapons, his courage, his good heart, the beautiful texts he continues to write and in which he expresses all his enthusiasms and dreams, he will victoriously bring his little war story to a close...