Alice on the island : a Pearl Harbor survival story / by Mayumi Shimose Poe ; illustrated by Matt Forsyth.
Material type:
TextSeries: Girls survivePublisher: North Mankato, Minnesota : Stone Arch Books, a capstone imprint, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 104 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781496578525
- 149657852X
- 9781496580122
- 1496580125
- Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 -- Juvenile fiction
- Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Juvenile fiction
- Survival -- Juvenile fiction
- Fathers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction
- Families -- Juvenile fiction
- Family life -- Hawaii -- Fiction
- Hawaii -- History -- 1900-1959 -- Juvenile fiction
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | GIRLS SU POE | Available | 33111009704301 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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. Featuring nonfiction support material, a glossary, and reader response questions, this Girls Survive story takes readers to one of history's most important moments.
On December 7, 1941, thirteen-year old Alice's life changes completely as she experiences an act of war, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and her father's imprisonment in a Japanese internment camp, leaving Alice and the rest of her family struggling to adjust to life without him.
RL: 3-5 ; IL: 3-7.