Bibliograph

Red berries, white clouds, blue sky, Sandra Dallas

Type

Label

Red berries, white clouds, blue sky, Sandra Dallas

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

640L, Lexile

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Red berries, white clouds, blue sky

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

922575957

Responsibility statement

Sandra Dallas

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, MG, 4.3, 6, 6, 173571

Summary

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? 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

Target audience

pre adolescent

Classification