A diamond in the desert

author: Fitzmaurice, Kathryn
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.
year: 2012, 2013
call number/section: 1000
subjects: japanese americans, evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, juvenile fiction, baseball, guilt, fiction

Editions


A diamond in the desert
Fitzmaurice, Kathryn
Viking (2012)
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.
Schools: 16



A diamond in the desert
Fitzmaurice, Kathryn
Puffin Books (2013)
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.
Schools: 8


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