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Title:
Missing in action
Personal Author EPSB:
Dean, Hughes
Summary:
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 Published:
2010
Physical Description:
228 p. ; 22 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
Grade Interest level:
7-11.
Subject:
Baseball stories.

Families -- Utah -- Fiction.

Grandparents -- Fiction.

Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Fiction.

Prejudices -- Fiction.

Racially mixed people -- Fiction.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.

Baseball -- Fiction.

Family life -- Utah -- Fiction.

Sports -- Fiction.
Geographic Term:
Utah -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.

Utah -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Curriculum Objective:
Remembrance Day--Div.2 local
ISBN:
9781416915027
Publisher:
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2010.
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