Thirteen-year-old Piper Davis records in her diary her experiences beginning in December 1941, when her brother joins the Navy and the United States goes to war, and as she attempts to document her life through photography, her father--the pastor for a Japanese Baptist Church in Seattle--follows his congregants to an Idaho internment camp, taking her along with him. Includes historical notes.
year: 2010
call number/section: 1000
subjects: world war, 1939-1945, united states, juvenile fiction, japanese americans, evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, fiction, photography