"Josie O'Malley decides that if she can't fight in World War II like her dad or be like her beloved superheroes who have mysteriously disappeared, she'll use her own skills to help in the war effort: puzzling and coding. But after being rejected from a puzzle-cracking tryout - just because she's a girl - Josie is swept into a secretive program along with two new friends, Akiko and Mae. Their shared love of female superheroes becomes reality one extraordinary...

In 1942, twelve-year-old Stick Lawson and her two best friends, Rain and Neb, set out to discover the Nazi spies they believe are helping orchestrate U-boat attacks on American ships off the coast of Hatteras Island.

A boy in Illinois remembers the homefront years of World War II, especially his two heroes--his brother in the Air Force and his father, who fought in the previous war.