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The sky we shared, Shirley Reva Vernick

eng

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Grades 7-9, Cinco Puntos Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc

fiction

The sky we shared

1201227881

Shirley Reva Vernick

Set during WWII and told in alternating voices, Nellie, a young Oregonian and survivor of a balloon bomb sent over by the Japanese, strives to understand how the war has torn her community apart and created prejudice against Japanese-Americans, while across the ocean, as part of her nationalist duty, Tamiko helps create the balloon bombs, but in her struggle to survive hunger and starvation, Tamiko muddles her way through her anger against the United States for the war

juvenile