Under the Blood-Red sun

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Youth level.
Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local bully, until life with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

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Blood-Red Sun submitted by SBNB on July 2, 2014, 10:07pm This was one of my favorite books when I was a kid. It's an incredible story of what happened to the Japanese in America after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

powerful insights submitted by camelsamba on June 22, 2015, 4:19pm Tomikazu lives in Hawaii with his little sister, parents, and proudly-Japanese grandfather. He and his school friends are passionate about baseball, and have to tiptoe around the local bully (whose family employs Tomi's mom). Typical kid stuff, right? Then about a third of the way into the book, the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and life begins to change for Tomi's family - in both subtle and not-so-subtle ways. One powerful aspect of this book is that nothing is presented as black-and-white. Tomi's friends care for and trust him, but are not afraid to say that they understand why others are scared and prejudiced against all Japanese.