Title: Tallgrass
First published: July 5, 2007
Description: During World War II, a family finds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes (and suspicions) turn to the newcomers, the interlopers, the strangers.
This is Tallgrass as Rennie Stroud has never seen it before. She has just turned thirteen and, until this time, life has pretty much been what her father told her it should be: predictable and fair. But now the winds of change are coming and, with them, a shift in her perspective. And Rennie will discover secrets that can destroy even the most sacred things.
Part thriller, part historical novel, ***Tallgrass*** is a riveting exploration of the darkest--and best--parts of the human heart.
Subjects: Fiction, Teenage girls, Japanese Americans, Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, World War, 1939-1945, Suspense fiction, Historical fiction, Colorado, fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Japanese americans, fiction, Large type books, Fiction, historical, general, Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
Places: Colorado
Time periods: WWII