A diamond in the desert
By: Kathryn Fitzmaurice
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780670012923
Subjects: Gila River Relocation Center; Guilt; Japanese Americans; Baseball; Juvenile fiction; Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Fiction
Description: After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, thirteen-year-old Tetsu and his family are sent to the Gila River Relocation Center in Arizona where a fellow prisoner starts a baseball team, but when Tetsu's sister becomes ill and he feels responsible, he stops playing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255).

Ages 10 up.