Nim and the War Effort by Milly Lee was about an young Chinese girl by the name of Nim who wants to win her school's newspaper drive to help the WWII war effort. She had an very traditional Chinese family who was closely connected to the Chinese rituals and traditions of their culture. The family lived in San Francisco where this little girl had an hard time distinguishing to family and peers that she was both Chinese and American. Major topics that are being taught in this book is culture differences between Chinese and American customs. For example, during dinner time some of the customs that were being taught were the grandfather would be served first then others in the family will be served after him depending on age and status within the family. Other topics that were taught to Nim during the school's newspaper drive was always lean upon her ancestors and never forget where she came from. This is something that many youth today fail to realize. This school drive was more than a school drive to Nim it was something that she could directly relate to because her grandfather was apart of the historical events of the World War II. A great lesson can be taught to children when reading this book is about how diverse our world is and many people have been greatly effected by our past world events. Nim was used as an model for how present day youth are we are quick to forget about our past historical events and we can also be unaware of other ethnic and religious cultures within United States.