" This book follows the story of Meggie Dillon, whom readers were first introduced to in Giff's book "Lily's Crossing." While Lily spends World War II in their neighborhood in Rockaway, New York, Meggie moves with her parents to Willow Run, Michigan, where her father has gotten a job at Henry Ford's enormous factory manufacturing planes for the War effort. Meggie's having a hard enough time adjusting to being the only child, as her beloved older brother Edward has joined the army & is stationed overseas. As the family waits to hear of his status following D-Day, Meggie finds unexpected strength through the friends she makes of fellow kids at the factory & the letters she writes to her grandfather, a naturalized German whose accent secretly causes Meggie a great deal of embarrassment & fear. Giff's portrayal of another aspect of life in America on the Home Front is interesting & absorbing. "
— Brett, 2/10/2014