This is a Battle of the Books book for the coming year here in Alaska. It is on the 7th and 8th grade list. From the cover, I thought maybe the book was a re-issue of an older book, but it doesn't appear to be such - at least for a brief look at the listing on Amazon.
In several ways, though, it reads like a book that was written a couple of decades ago - or maybe it is just that it is true to the WW II era setting in the way it depicts the family in the book. It seems old-fashioned - Mom, the caretaker of the kids; Dad the brave soldier bringing up his kids according to his military views. It isn't a bad book - it is probably pretty faithful to what could have happened. And it does bring up the prejudice suffered by Americans of Japanese ancestry. I enjoyed it, but it didn't impact me emotionally as much as I might have expected.
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