Different days / by Vicki Berger Erwin.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Skyhorse Publishing, [2017]Edition: First editionDescription: 270 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781510724587 (hc : alk. paper)
- 1510724583 (hc : alk. paper)
- False imprisonment -- Juvenile fiction
- German Americans -- Juvenile fiction
- Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction
- Homeless persons -- Juvenile fiction
- Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 -- Juvenile fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Juvenile fiction
- Family life -- Hawaii -- Honolulu -- Fiction
- Families -- Hawaii -- Honolulu -- Juvenile fiction
- Hawaii -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Fiction | Erwin Vicki Be | Available | 33111008531952 | ||||
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | Erwin Vicki Be | Available | 33111008833770 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Twelve-year-old Rosie is fiercely proud to be an American, and has a happy life with her family in their comfortable home in sunny Honolulu, Hawaii.
Then, on the morning of December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor is bombed and everything changes.
Rosie's parents, both of German descent -- but American citizens who have lived in Hawaii nearly all their lives -- are immediately rounded up by the military. Though they've done nothing wrong, they are interrogated as German spies and imprisoned, and all the family's possessions are seized. Within days, Rosie and her brother are abandoned and homeless. A relative begrudgingly takes them in until their beloved aunt (who was also rounded up, but released) comes for them. Even then, the children's once-idyllic lives are filled with darkness and discrimination as they can only wait -- and hope -- for their parents' safe return.
Based on true events, Different Days tells the story of a little-known aspect of World War II: the Internment of German Americans.
Ages 8-12.
Twelve-year-old Rosie and her brother face homelessness in Honolulu when their parents, Americans of German descent, are interrogated and imprisoned as suspected spies after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Includes historical notes.
Includes bibliographical references.