A moving debut middle-grade novel about a girl whose family is relocated to a Japanese internment camp during World War II and the dog she has to leave behind.
Ten-year-old Manami did not realize how peaceful her family's life on Bainbridge Island was until the day it all changed. It's 1942, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Manami and her family are Japanese American, which means that the government says they must leave their home by the sea and join other Japanese Americans at a prison camp in the desert. Manami is sad to go, but even worse is that they are going to...
A moving debut middle-grade novel about a girl whose family is relocated to a Japanese internment camp during World War II and the dog she has t...