Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Sky - Softcover

Dallas, Sandra

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Synopsis

USA Best Books Award for Children's Fiction winner (2014)

Sandra Dallas shines a light on a dark period of American history in this story of a young Japanese American girl caught up in the prejudices and World War II.

It's 1942: Tomi Itano, 12, is a second-generation Japanese American who lives in California with her family on their strawberry farm. Although her parents came from Japan and her grandparents still live there, Tomi considers herself an American. She doesn't speak Japanese and has never been to Japan. But after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, things change. No Japs Allowed signs hang in store windows and Tomi's family is ostracized. Things get much worse.

Suspected as a spy, Tomi's father is taken away. The rest of the Itano family is sent to an internment camp in Colorado. Many other Japanese American families face a similar fate. Tomi becomes bitter, wondering how her country could treat her and her family like the enemy. What does she need to do to prove she is an honorable American?

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About the Author

Sandra Dallas is the New York Times bestselling author of the middle-grade novels Hardscrabble, The Quilt Walk, Red Berries, White Clouds, Blue Sky, and Someplace to Call Home. A member of the Colorado Authors’ Hall of Fame, she is the author of ten nonfiction books and seventeen adult novels, including The Last Midwife, Prayers for Sale, The Diary of Mattie Spenser, The Persian Pickle Club, and Little Souls. A former Denver bureau chief for Business Week magazine, she is the recipient of three National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Wrangler awards, four Western Writers of America Spur Awards, and six Women Writing the West WILLA Awards. She lives in Denver and Georgetown, Colorado. Visit her at www.sandradallas.com.

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ISBN 10:  1585369063 ISBN 13:  9781585369065
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press, 2014
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