num_pages: 272
description: For Tetsu baseball is so much more than just a gameOn December 6 1941 Tetsu is a twelve-year-old California boy who loves baseball. On December 7 1941 everything changes. The bombing of Pearl Harbor means Tetsu's Japanese-American family will be relocated to an internment camp.Gila River camp isn't technically a prison but with nowhere to go nothing to do and no time frame for leaving it might as well be. So when someone has the idea of building a baseball diamond and starting a team Tetsu is overjoyed. But then his sister gets dangerously sick forcing him to choose between his family and his love of the game. This is an impeccably researched lyrical story about baseball honor and a turbulent period in U.S. history.
language: English
title: A Diamond in the Desert
publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers