Helpful Score: 7
This was a wonderful book! Character development excellent. Plot is unusual; keeps you enthralled. Amazing that this kind of thing took place in this country; and the potential is there for it to happen again. I hope we all guard against that.
Helpful Score: 6
This is a great book with the story told by a 12 year old Colorado farm girl during WWII. Missing both her sister who has gone to the city to work in the war factory and her brother who has enlisted, Rennie befrends several Japanese who have come to work on her fathers farm. Tallgrass, the farm next to her family farm has been turned into a Japanese internment camp and we see the life of the Japanese in the camps through Rennie's eyes. The story depicts the prejudice and fear of the small town people and how Rennie's family fights these prejudices. I really enjoyed the story and the historical content and had a hard time putting the book down.
Helpful Score: 4
I thought that this book was pretty good. I felt it was very similar to To Kill a Mockingbird, just I different time, place and race. Being from Colorado it was fun to read about places that I know of. I was thinking there was going to be more about how they were treated at the camp and instead of more about the family. I don't know much about what happened with the camps and was hoping to increase my knowledge about the subject but with some fiction.
I would recommend this book to other people and would read more from the author.
I would recommend this book to other people and would read more from the author.
Helpful Score: 3
This is a touching story told from the perspective of a 13 year old girl growing up on the Kansas plains during WWII. Her life is changed when a Japanese internment camp is set up just down the road from her family's farm. Over the course of the book she learns about strength of character, right and wrong, and takes on more responsibility than she should need. I really enjoyed the perspective from which this book is written which helped certain events to unfold in the reader's mind. There were surprises that kept the book going while giving a glimpse of what daily life was like during WWII.
Helpful Score: 1
I loved this book! I never knew the extent of the Japanese internment camps and found it eye-opening. I love Sandra Dallas' style of writing. This is an easy read of a very heavy subject matter.