Seventeen-year-old Tal Levine of Jerusalem, despondent over the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict, puts her hopes for peace in a bottle and asks her brother, a military nurse in the Gaza Strip, to toss it into the sea, leading ultimately to friendship and understanding between her and an "enemy."

"Originally published in France by L'Ecole des Loisirs in 2005 as 'Une Bouteille dans la Mer de Gaza'"--T.p. verso.