A diamond in the desert

Author(s)

• Fitzmaurice, Kathryn

Bibliographic Information

A diamond in the desert

Kathryn Fitzmaurice

Viking, c2012

• : hardcover

Note

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

Includes bibliographical references

Details

• NCID: BB15806405
• ISBN:
  • 9780670012923
• LCCN: 2011012041
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: 258 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PZ7.F5776
  • DC23 : [Fic]
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Juvenile fiction
  • LCSH : Gila River Relocation Center -- Juvenile fiction
  • JVSH : Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Fiction
  • JVSH : Gila River Relocation Center -- Fiction
  • JVSH : Baseball -- Fiction
  • JVSH : Guilt -- Fiction