I've no complaints here- Hula for the Home Front picks up about a week after Growing Up Aloha left off, with school resuming a few months after the Pearl Harbor attack. There's a new girl and Nanea is jealous (and still feeling the pain of Donna moving away as non-essential personnel). Her older brother is also a few months away from turning 18, and she worries that he will enlist in the US Army.

I still feel weird about this two book format vs. the original 6, but we still cover school, birthday, and big life change beats for Nanea, classic American Girl topics. I do miss having illustrations, but this is a good companion to Molly's perspective on how WWII affected young people. ( )