A wonderful asset to the classroom as well as to home libraries." ≼HILDREN'S BOOK REVIEW SERVICE "An impressive series that will challenge students to make connections from prominent historical events to relevant life situations. "More than a supplement to classroom textbooks, this series is an imaginative, solid entre into American history." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Piper, meanwhile, hates her new life, but soon, through her budding friendship with Betty, a Japanese-American girl who is interned in the camp, Piper learns how it important it is to bear witness to the events that were bound to change America. Her brother, who survived the Pearl Harbor strike, is stationed in the Pacific, while her brother-in-law is shipped off to Europe to fight. Piper is jealous of her older sister, who gets to remain at home and go off to work. Piper's father is the pastor for a Japanese Baptist church, and when its members are taken away to Minidoka, Idaho, to be interned, Pastor Davis moves his family from Seattle to Idaho to be with his congregation.
After the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, where her brother, a navy sailor, is stationed, Piper Davis begins chronicling her compelling journey through one of history's most tragic and unforgettable eras. And one girl's entire life is about to change when everything she knows is turned on its head. When Pearl Harbor is attacked, America is finally unable to ignore the wars raging in Europe and Asia any longer.
With this sweeping tale of life on the World War II homefront, Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson brings her incredible talent to the Dear America series. She resents being uprooted, but as she learns about the harsh and heartbreaking realities of war, Piper begins to understand that she has the power to make a difference.Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson brings us the first new Dear America diary in years, taking readers through the attack on Pearl Harbor, the start of World War II, and the Japanese incarceration. Piper's father, a pastor for a Japanese Baptist church, decides to follow his congregants when they are sent to an incarceration campy, bringing Piper along with him. Soon, Piper is greeted by another grim reality-the incarceration of her Japanese neighbors. Explosions rule the earth and sky, and Piper wonders what will become of her brother, and of her life in Seattle, as rationing and blackouts take hold. One fateful day in December 1941, Piper Davis awaits news of her brother, a soldier on the battleship Arizona stationed in Pearl Harbor. Dedication " This book is dedicated to all the nearly 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent who were incarcerated in the ten War Relocation Camps during World War II, but especially to those in Minidoka." Book description " My name is Piper.
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