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Author:
Fitzmaurice, Kathryn.
Title:
A diamond in the desert / Kathryn Fitzmaurice.
Publisher:
Scholastic Inc
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
258 pages ; 22 cm.
Subject:
Gila River Relocation Center--Juvenile fiction.
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Notes:
"First Scholastic printing, April 2013"--Verso page. "This edition is available for distribution only through the school market."--Page 4 of cover. Reprint: Originally published by Viking, 2012. Includes bibliographical references (page 255.)
Summary:
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.
ISBN:
0545606063
9780545606066
OCLC:
(OCoLC)849455977
Locations:
XFPB697 -- Stanton Public Library (Stanton)

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