When America and Japan go to war, will Macy's feelings for her beloved
Japanese Friendship Doll change? Here is a moving addition to the
Friendship Dolls series.
In 1941, eleven-year-old Macy James lives near the Oregon coast with her
father, the director of a small museum. Miss Tokyo, one of fifty-eight
exquisite friendship dolls given to America by Japan in 1926, is part of
the museum's collection -- and one of Macy's most treasured connections
to her mother, who recently passed away. When the Japanese bomb Pearl
Harbor, many of Macy's neighbors demand that Miss Tokyo be destroyed.
When her brother joins the Navy and devastating news from the war begins
to pour in, Macy starts having doubts -- does remaining loyal to Miss
Tokyo mean being disloyal to America? Bringing the story of the
Friendship Dolls forward to World War II, Shirley Parenteau delivers
another thoughtful historical novel inspired by a little-known true
event.