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Alice on the Island: A Pearl Harbor Survival Story

✍ Scribed by Mayumi Shimose Poe

Book ID
111932451
Publisher
Capstone
Year
2019
Tongue
en-US
Weight
7 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781496581938

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

In 1941, thirteen-year-old Alice's days are filled with swimming in the Hawaiian sea, going to school, and helping watch her younger siblings. But on December 7, everything changes when she experiences an act of warΓ‘the bombing of Pearl Harbor. As the United States enters World War II, Alice's father is sent to a Japanese internment camp, leaving Alice and the rest of her family struggling to adjust to life without him. Featuring nonfiction support material, a glossary, and reader response questions, this Girls Survive story takes readers to one of history's most important moments.

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