Over half a century after the event, we are marking the destruction of our naval fleet by the Empire of Japan at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Part history and part mystery story, Finding Pearl Harbor is the first of five books about children growing up on the home front during World War II.

Set in a small rural community, the children are learning to cope with highly personal issues of their own when suddenly confronted with the possibility of war invading their isolated lives. Larry, the oldest, wants to join the army, but is charged with the care of his little sister, Molly, who firmly believes their mother is with the angels. Stella struggles to understand her strange gift of second sight. Ellen's mother seems bitterly unloving for no good reason. Barbara, sent from England to escape the bombs, works hard at settling into her new life. Roland, handicapped, silent, and brooding, seeks ways to reach out to the others.

Finding Pearl Harbor is fiction, but the events of World War II are carefully interwoven into the story. It is the children's task to come to terms with them in a world where they think nobody ever tells you anything.