Eve's Jewish family owns the local grocery store. Though Eve was born in Canada, she is taunted at school for being a "Greenie," a newcomer and outsider. When Eve notices the same children bullying Mark Nakamura for his Japanese culture, she jumps in to defend him. A friendship is born, one filled with fantastic stories and laughs shared at the top of the highest rock in the park. And when Mark's father loses his job, it's Eve who comes up with the brilliant plan that will stop Mark from having to move away and make yet another new start.

Set just after the end of World War II, this story of friendship between a Japanese boy and a Jewish girl highlights perennial themes: the power of friendship, family and community and the strength of solidarity in the face of adversity. (From Scholastic Canada)

Frieda Wishinsky is a Toronto-based writer and educator. Some of her other books include A Flower is a Friend and Jennifer Jones Won't Leave Me Alone which won the Sheffield Children's Book Award, the Stockport Children's Book Award and the Portsmouth Children's Book Award. Wishinsky also won the 2008 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award for her picture book Please, Louise!.

Ruth Ohi is a picture book author and illustrator from Toronto. She has created more than 60 books for kids, including the Fox and Squirrel series, Scribble and Choose Kindness.