Missing in action
By: Dean Hughes
Edition: First Atheneum books for Young Readers paperback edition.
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781481426992
Subjects: Young adult fiction; Families; World War, 1939-1945; Racially mixed people; Grandparents; Juvenile fiction; Prejudices; Fiction; Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01801850; World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924; Sports stories; Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans; Baseball stories; Baseball; History
Description: Jay Thacker is used to being called names because his dad is half Navajo. But he gets a chance at a new life and a new identity when he and his mom move to the small town of Delta, Utah, to live with Jay's grandfather. In Delta, Jay can convince everyone, and maybe even himself, that his dad --who is missing in action-- as he fights in WWII is really a POW and military hero, and not gone forever. As the summer wears on and Jay finds himself growing up a little faster than he expected, he learns to look at some truths that had previously been impossible to face. Truths about his father; about Ken, his new friend from the Japanese internment camp nearby; and about himself, too.