Lisa and her lit­tle broth­er Jon enjoy col­lect­ing stamps. But when their father holds a con­test to decide which child will get a new large stamp album, Lisa has to solve a dif­fi­cult prob­lem.

A mid­dle-grade fic­tion chap­ter book por­trays a Jew­ish fam­i­ly cel­e­brat­ing Sab­bath and Passover in the 1960s, includ­ing details about Jew­ish sol­diers’ expe­ri­ences dur­ing World War II and the ear­ly stages of the Civ­il Rights Movement.