Ever since she can remember, Bird has loved flying in small propeller airplanes with her mechanic dad. When the local airstrip is turned into a military flight school, Bird is in heaven—and she manages to turn one young airman's interest in her older sister into some personal flight lessons. <br>Then a young Japanese American student named Kenji Fujita joins Bird's class, and the entire school seems to be convinced that he's a spy, a secret agent, or at the very least, that he and his uncle want the Japs to win. <br>But through a class project, Bird and Kenji befriend each other and accidentally discover <i>real</i> spy activity in the area. So begins an adventure that will shake the town and may even change the future of the United States.<br><br><i>Winner of the Dell Yearling Contest</i>