Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Missing in Action by Dean Hughes


"Jay Thacker was standing by the backstop."

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While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment camp.

Antheneum Books, 228 pages

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