Can a ship carrying Friendship Dolls to Japan be Lexies ticket to see her fun-loving mother again? A heartwarming historical novel inspired by a little-known true event.Its 1926, and the one thing eleven-year-old Lexie Lewis wants more than anything is to leave Portland, Oregon, where she has been staying with her strict grandparents, and rejoin her mother, a carefree singer in San Franciscos speakeasies. But Mamas new husband doesnt think a little girl should live with parents who work all night and sleep all day. Meanwhile, Lexies class has been raising money to ship a doll to the children of Japan in a friendship exchange, and when Lexie learns that the girl who writes the best letter to accompany the doll will be sent to the farewell ceremony in San Francisco, she knows she just has to be the winner.
