Captain June

A boy soldier in a foreign land. That's what young June becomes when his army officer father is stationed in Japan, and June and his mother sail from the Philippines to join him. But this isn't a war story. It's a tender account of a child's first encounters with a world entirely unlike his own: the sounds and colors of Japan, the warmth of his nurse Seki San's family, and the strange adventure that unfolds when he meets Monsieur Carré, a Frenchman with a mysterious past and a letter that needs delivering. June must be brave. Not because he's a soldier's son, but because courage, as he learns, is what happens when love pushes you forward. Rice writes with gentle humor and an artist's eye for the small moments that make childhood feel like an endless summer.