Description It is just prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941, California. Like so many others, Cassies family has left a home and lifestyle hampered by economic depression and immigrated here to find work in the defense plants and live in a housing project. It is a long way from the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. School is on double session with forty children in each section of the fifth grade. There, Cassie and Miko, a JapaneseAmerican, have found each other and become best friends. Mikos family owns and lives on a farm, but being Japanese carries for them problems that Cassie, at first, cannot understand. Seeing the war as the key to his dreams, hating the Japanese and bigoted toward Italian, Spanish and Jewish people, Cassies father undermines their fatherdaughter relationship by ordering...
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Published 19949780880921060
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