Title: The sound of life and everything
Description: In 1950s California, grieving Mildred Clausen tries to have her son, who was killed in World War II, cloned but instead, a Japanese man emerges and her niece, Ella Mae, befriends him, in spite of the town's intense prejudice and her aunt's conviction that he is her son's killer.

Grieving Mildred tries to have her son, who died in World War II, cloned, but instead a Japanese man emerges and her niece, Ella Mae, befriends him, in spite of the town's intense prejudice and her aunt's conviction that he is her son's killer.
Subjects: Families, Juvenile fiction, Japanese, Prejudices, Family life, Cloning, Fiction, History
Places: United States, California
Time periods: 20th century