Alice on the Island
by Mayumi Shimose Poe, Alessia Trunfio, Matt Forsyth
Children's fictionPearl harbor (hawaii), attack on, 1941, fictionJapanese americans, fictionSurvival, fictionFathers and daughters, fictionHawaii, fictionFamily, fiction
In 1941, thirteen-year-old Alice's days are filled with swimming in the Hawaiian sea, going to school, and helping watch her younger siblings. But on December 7, everything changes when she experiences an act of war, the bombing of Pearl Harbor. As the United States enters World War II, Alice's father is sent to a Japanese internment camp, leaving Alice and the rest of her family struggling to adjust to life without him.
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Book data: Open Library