Fifth-grader Shoko meets Kana at the self-chosen Jiyu Juku. As they search for Paula, a missing cat, Kana hopes to help pay her tuition, and the two girls confront family circumstances and the changing distance between friends.

The search for Paula leads Shoko and Kana to reconsider their own lives and what freedom means to them.

Kiri no Nagareru Kawa is a children's novel about the shadows war leaves in ordinary lives. A frail boy who appears before Kana and asks after something lost leads the story toward events that took place in the village during the war.

An encounter with a mysterious boy connects what seemed to be a distant war past with the present.

星のむこうは魔女の国 is a work by 白金由美子.

星のむこうは魔女の国, a work by 白金由美子.