Prejudice linked to an event from the past threatens the friendship that Akiko and her brother have made with a boy on their new island home.

• ISBN: 9780679841845
• Author: Ikeda, Daisaku
• Illustrator: Wildsmith, Brian
• Published: 1993 , Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Themes: Friendship, island, prejudice
• Descriptors: Asia, Fiction, Japan, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9)
• No. of pages: 32