"Holling HoodHood est�a en problemas. Acaba de comenzar el se�nora Baker, y presiente que la maestra tiene algo en su contra. �Por qu�e otra raz�on lo har�ia leer a Shakespeare fuera del horario de class?"-- During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare...

Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War.