Honoria, Shohei, and Elias, who are "united together against That Which Is The Peshtigo School, " face conflict over their budding romantic interest and a science project gone awry.
Katie Takeshima, a Japanese American girl growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, is cheered by the optimism of her sister and best friend Lynn, but when Lynn becomes very ill, Katie struggles to find a way to keep her hopeful spirit alive within the family.
When sixteen-year-old Sana and her family move to California, Sana must come to terms with the secrets that she's been keeping: she thinks her father is having an affair, and she has a crush on her girlfriend.
On a walk to Central Park a Japanese-American child's father folds paper hats and boats to sail on the pond and then paper cranes to fly on their bus ride home.
Kiri, a Japanese American girl who loves to draw and paint, tries to use the origami set she received for her birthday. Includes instructions for making an origami butterfly.
Ten-year-old Akiko has an unexpected adventure when she is whisked away to a distant planet and put in charge of the rescue mission that must search for the kidnapped Prince Froptoppit.
Describes the values, cultures, and histories of China and Japan, discussing such topics as the Great Wall, the Qin dynasty, and the samurai and interviewing Japanese students living in America about the culture clashes they have experienced.
