"Frank and Stanley are touring a battleship when Japanese planes zoom overhead, dropping bomb after bomb. As explosions roar and sailors scream, Frank and Stanley realize the unthinkable is happening: Japan is attacking America! The war has come to them. Frantically, the boys struggle to find safety. But disaster and danger are everywhere--from torpedoes underwater to bullets on the beach ... to the shocking cruelty that thier friends and neighbors...

Ranger, the time-travelling Golden retriever, travels back to 1941 Hawaii, where World War II is on everyone's minds. That includes Ben Hansen, a young sailor stationed at Pearl Harbor, and twins Paul and Grace Yamada who are making their weekly market trip when Japanese bombs begin to fall from the sky. As the surprise attack puts all of Ranger's new friends in danger, his search-and-rescue training kicks in to high gear. Can he help them survive...

Jody has lived in many places thanks to her dad's military job. With her dog Happy who is getting older, and her Mom worried about their new Hawaiian placement, safety is on the back of everone's mind during 1940. Jody creates a "List' to cope with activitites for her and Happy, then Pearl Harbor is attacked and she is now the leader of her family as her father stays behind after the evacuation.