In Tokyo, Japan in 2000, Fumiko Ishioka recieves a beaten up suitcase with the words Hana Brady, orphan and a date. Fumiko is the director of the Tokyo Holocaust Education Center, and she is determined to find out who Hana Bradyl was and what her story holds. She not only wants to find out for herself but she wants to help explain to a group she leads called "Small Wings." This is a group of teenagers that volunteer at The Holocaust Education Resource Center teaching other children about the Holocaust, in an effort to prevent anything like it from happening again.
Ruby LaRue lives in New Hampshire in a small snowy ski town. What she wishes more than anything is to be like the rich kids that come in to the small town to ski. Everyone calls them outsiders and she thinks that it would be fun to be one of them, with all of their fancy ski stuff, perfect lives and popularity.
