A Diamond in the Desert
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After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, thirteen-year-old Tetsu and his family are sent to the Gila River Relocation Center in Arizona where a fellow prisoner starts a baseball team, but when Tetsu's sister becomes ill and he feels responsible, he stops playing.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Viking, c2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: 258 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780670012923
0670012920
SUBJECTS
Gila River Relocation Center -- Fiction.
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Fiction.
Baseball -- Fiction.
Guilt -- Fiction.