A Diamond in the Desert
New York : Viking Children's Books, 2012.
Format: Book
Description: 258 pages ; 22 cm
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, thirteen-year-old Tetsu and his family are sent to the Gila River Relocation Center in Arizona where a fellow prisoner starts a baseball team, but when Tetsu's sister becomes ill and he feels responsible, he stops playing.
Subjects:
Gila River Relocation Center -- Juvenile fiction.
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Juvenile fiction.
Baseball stories.
Guilt -- Juvenile fiction.
Gila River Relocation Center -- Juvenile fiction.
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Juvenile fiction.
Baseball stories.
Guilt -- Juvenile fiction.
ISBN:
0670012920
Availability | |||
---|---|---|---|
Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C Fitzmaurice | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's Fiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (page 255).