Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Cinco Puntos Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc., [2022]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
229 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781947627529, 194762752X :, 194762752X, 9781947627529
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Set during WWII and told in alternating voices, Nellie, a young Oregonian and survivor of a balloon bomb sent over by the Japanese, strives to understand how the war has torn her community apart and created prejudice against Japanese-Americans, while across the ocean, as part of her nationalist duty, Tamiko helps create the balloon bombs, but in her struggle to survive hunger and starvation, Tamiko muddles her way through her anger against the United States for the war
Grades 7-9