Julia Jarman

Jessame Aduke Olusanya doesn't mind her nicknames, Messy Jessy and Baddy Addy, because she is sometimes bad or messy. Usually she is just Jessame, a lively little girl who has lots of exciting adventures.

How could her mother, a peace-campaigner, have sent Hilde to live with her father, a librarian on a USAF base? Hilde is furious, refuses to attend school and joins an archeological dig. Though she is against war, she thinks protest is futile - until she finds a gold brooch from the grave of a sixth-century peace weaver.