Overview
- Summary
- Teens Haruko, a Japanese American, and Margot, a German American, form a life-changing friendship as everything around them starts falling apart in the Crystal City family internment camp during World War II.
1944. The war seemed far away from Margot in Iowa and Haruko in Colorado-- until they were uprooted to dusty Texas, because of the places their parents once called home: Germany and Japan. At the high school in Crystal City, a "family internment camp" for those accused of colluding with the enemy, the teens discover that the camp is changing them, day by day, and piece by piece. Haruko becomes consumed by fear for her soldier brother and distrust of her father's secrets. Margot's watches her mother's health deteriorate and her rational father become a man who distrusts America and fraternizes with Nazis. In a prison the government has deemed full of spies, can they trust anyone-- even each other? -- adapted from goodreads.com info. - Format
- Book
- Published
- New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2018
- Locale
- United States
- Edition
- First edition
- Notes
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"Bestselling author of Girl in the Blue Coat"--Dust jacket.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316316699
9780316316712 - Physical Description
- 318 pages : map ; 22 cm
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- Friendship--Juvenile fiction. Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945--Juvenile fiction. German Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1941-1948--Juvenile fiction. World War, 1939-1945--United States--Juvenile fiction. Friendships. Fiction. Crystal City Internment Camp (Crystal City, Tex.)--Juvenile fiction.
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