Members of two sixth-grade softball teams face each other in a long-awaited game. Shazam can't forgive her father's death at Pearl Harbor (8 years ago) and, consequently, can't forgive Aki, a Japanese American girl on the opposing team. Tension mounts and explodes, resulting in injuries to the girls and their communities. Told in the strong, individual voices of the twenty-one girls, this insightful and suspenseful commentary powerfully represents prejudice and the long-lasting impact of war.

In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface.