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Author:

Hughes, Dean, 1943-

Title:

Missing in action / Dean Hughes.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Atheneum Books for Young Readers,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

228 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Prejudices--Juvenile fiction.
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Racially mixed people--Juvenile fiction.
Baseball stories.
Grandparents--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Families--Utah--Juvenile fiction.
Utah--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Fiction.
Racially mixed people--Fiction.
Baseball--Fiction.
Grandparents--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Family life--Utah--Fiction.
Sports--Fiction.
Utah--History--20th century--Fiction.

Summary:

While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.

ISBN:

1416915028 (hardcover) :
9781416915027 (hardcover) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)317623117

LCCN:

2009011276

Locations:

GFPE771 -- Altoona Public Library (Altoona)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

JBPC145 -- Coon Rapids Public Library (Coon Rapids)

NWPC663 -- Nissen Public Library (Saint Ansgar)

WAPD715 -- Sheldon Public Library (Sheldon)

XFPB697 -- Stanton Public Library (Stanton)

CQPE926 -- Washington Free Public Library (Washington)