During World War II, Jed's English father serves as a fighter pilot overseas, while he and his mother return to her Tsimshian community on Canada's West Coast. When the military sets up an army base near town, Jed is hired to help out - honored it seems, for both his father's bravery and his own native skills as a hunter. Presented with a military jacket, Jed finds an allegiance to his country and a pride in his mixed heritage which he has never felt before.

But one day his world is shattered. Jed's best friend, Tadashi, along with members of his family and the other members of the nearby Japanese village, are declared enemy aliens and told to prepare to leave the coast. Now Jed must decide where his loyalty really belongs; to his country's rigid code, or to the truth that lies in his native soul.

Set during World War II, Caged Eagles tells the story of Tadashi Fukushima and his family. They are forced by government edict to abandon their fishing village on the northwest coast of British Columbia and, along with other Japanese Canadians, journey to an internment center in Vancouver, where they await an uncertain future.

For Tadashi, fourteen, detention becomes both an adventure and a dilemma as he struggles to understand the undercurrents of racism and injustice that have overtaken his life and those of his community.

Caged Eagles is the sequel to the award winning novel, War of The Eagles.