A diamond in the desert
By: Kathryn Fitzmaurice
Publisher: Scholastic Inc
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780545606066
Subjects: Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01801850; 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: "First Scholastic printing, April 2013"--Verso page.

"This edition is available for distribution only through the school market."--Page 4 of cover.

Reprint: Originally published by Viking, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (page 255).

Ages 10 up.