Tallgrass (Library)
by:
Sandra Dallas (author)
Format: Library
ISBN:
9781439595947 (1439595941)
Pages no: 305
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
History,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
Mystery,
War,
Coming Of Age,
World War II
The year is 1942 and the government has created a relocation camp for the Japanese in Colorado, in a town called Ellis. Just like any other issue, there are individuals who are opposed to having these Japs in their town and feel as though they should be sent back to their own country. The U.S. is at...
I think I expected more out of this book than what it delivered. I found the story to be written much more as a young adult or juvenile piece of literature, with the exception of a few nasty slang terms for Japanese Americans used during that period of time. I found the mystery component to the book...
One of the best books I have read in a long time!
I wasn't sure if I would enjoy this since I don't usually care for historical books but I loved it! This is fictional but it's based on actual Japanese internment camps in the U.S. in the 1940's. 13 year-old Rennie Stroud is the narrator of this story in Colorado during WWll. She and her family, in...
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