Title Missing in action / Dean Hughes.

Publication Info.	New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2010]
	©2010

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Teen	YA HISTORY HUGHES	DUE 01-25-21 Billed

Edition	First edition.
Description	228 pages ; 22 cm
Study Program	Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 3.9 7.0 135337.
Awards	A Junior Library Guild selection
Audience	Ages 10-14.
Summary	While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.
Audience	Lexile: 620.
Subject	Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction.
	Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Juvenile fiction.
	Racially mixed people -- Juvenile fiction.
	Baseball stories.
	Grandparents -- Juvenile fiction.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Juvenile fiction.
	Families -- Utah -- Juvenile fiction.
	Utah -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.
	Prejudices -- Fiction.
	Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Fiction.
	Multiracial people -- Fiction.
	Baseball -- Fiction.
	Grandparents -- Fiction.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.
	Family life -- Utah -- Fiction.
	Sports -- Fiction.
	Utah -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
ISBN	9781416915027 hardcover $16.99
	1416915028 hardcover $16.99

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