A spacious umbrella welcomes anyone and everyone who needs shelter from the rain.

When a friendly hedgehog visits the farm, the chickens build an enormous wall to keep out "prickly invaders."

Set during WWII and told in alternating voices, Nellie, a young Oregonian and survivor of a balloon bomb sent over by the Japanese, strives to understand how the war has torn her community apart and created prejudice against Japanese-Americans, while across the ocean, as part of her nationalist duty, Tamiko helps create the balloon bombs, but in her struggle to survive hunger and starvation, Tamiko muddles her way through her anger against the United...