Dallas, Sandra Red
Berries White Clouds Blue Sky, 237 pgs.
Sleeping Bear Press, 2014.
$9.99 Content: PG.
Tomi lives with her mother and father and two
brothers on a strawberry farm in California during World War II. One day the FBI comes and takes her father away. Shortly after Tomi and her family are relocated to Santa Anita and then
sent to Colorado to a Japanese Internment Camp called Tallgrass. Tomi spends three years at the camp and
learns a lot about what it means to her and her family to be American.
This is a simple introduction to what
happened in Japanese Interment Camps. Although the character’s voice seems young, she is in the ninth grade
for the bulk of the book. The book
raises a lot of honest questions that Japanese Americans had during this time
in our history and the author does a great job of making the reader understand. The content is clean enough that it’s easy
to recommend.
MS, HS – ADVISABLE. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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