While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.
year: 2010, 2011, 2016
call number/section: 1000, 1
subjects: prejudices, juvenile fiction, japanese americans, evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, racially mixed people, baseball, grandparents, utah, history, 20th century, juvenile fiction, fiction, fiction, evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, baseball stories, world war, 1939-1945, families, utah, family life, historical fiction, war fiction, war stories, adventure fiction
Editions
Hughes, Dean
Atheneum Books for Young Readers (2010)
While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.
Schools: 32
Hughes, Dean
Simon Pulse (2011)
While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.
Schools: 4
Hughes, Dean
While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.
Schools: 4
Hughes, Dean
Fitzgerald Books (2016)
While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.
Schools: 2