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Fitzmaurice, Kathryn.
A diamond in the desert /
Kathryn Fitzmaurice.
New York :
Scholastic Inc,
℗♭2013.
258 pages ;
22 cm.
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"First Scholastic printing, April 2013"--Verso page.
"This edition is available for distribution only through the school market."--Page 4 of cover.
Reprint: Originally published by Viking, 2012.
Includes bibliographical references (page 255.)
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.
Ages 10 up.
20211023.
Gila River Relocation Center
Juvenile fiction.
Japanese Americans
Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Juvenile fiction.