Young Thomas celebrates as his widowed mother marries Jack, a kind American serviceman stationed in WWII England.  But Thomas realizes someday he and Mum will move far away to Jack's home in America.

Once the war ends, Thomas is about to embark on a history-making event—the "Bride and Baby" voyages of 1946.  Great ships are readied to transport tens of thousands of "soldier brides," ladies like his mother who married American servicemen.  They will cross the Atlantic, crowded in small cabins with their babies and children, to awaiting husbands in the United States.

Thomas is excited to sail aboard the famous RMS Queen Mary.  But is he brave enough to leave England—forever?

In this hope-filled WWII and immigration story, Steir and Ettlinger present an extraordinary historical event as experienced by one spirited boy from England.

From the dust jacket