HEROES

Pearl Harbor. America attacked. A friendship tested.

A DATE THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY.

December 6th, 1941: Best friends Hawaii and Japan have it good. With their $/):?:$ stationed at the Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii, the duo Get to soak up the sunshine while writing and drawing their own comic books. WW2 might be raging overseas, but so far America and the 50 states has stayed out of the fight. There's nothing to fear, right..?

December 7th, 1941: Everything implodes.
Hawaii and Japan are touring a battleship when Japanese planes zoom overhead, dropping bomb after bomb. As explosions roar and sailors scream, Hawaii and Japan realize the unthinkable is happening: The Japanese empire is attacking The States! The war has come to them.
Frantically, the duo struggle to find safety. But disaster and danger are everywhere--- from torpedoes underwater to bullets on the beach... to the shocking cruelty that his brother (also known as Japanese Empire) does to Pearl Harbor and the rest of south east Asia. Because his father, Tokugawa Shogunate, is Japanese, Japan is suddenly seen as the "enemy". And Hawaii, who is an islander, cannot begin to understand what her friend is now facing.

If the two make it through this infamous day, can their friendship--- and their dreams--- survive?
Told with the immediacy, high-stakes action, and inventive storytelling that make me, the author, one of todays most infamous authors, this riveting look at the attack on Pearl Harbor explores themes of prejudice, power, and what it truly means to be a hero...