Salisbury, Graham Hunt for the Bamboo Rat 323
pgs. Wendy Lamb Books (Random House), 2016. $17.99 Content: Language: G (0
swears); Mature Content: PG Violence: PG13+ (military torture)
Zenji is an American born and living in Hawaii. He has been
taught to respect his Japanese heritage and speaks fluent Japanese. World war
II is sweeping across Europe and the United States is getting ready. Zenji is
asked to join a secret division of the army located in the Philippines. Here
his translation skills will be useful to discovering information about the
Japanese. Zenji will be asked to decide his loyalties, even under extreme
duress, decide the fate of those he is surveilling, and to endanger his life on
many occasions.
This is historical fiction at its finest. It asks some very
important questions about heritage versus the country you were born in in regards to loyalty,
deciding what is the right thing to do in harrowing situations, and the costs
of heroism. I avoiding reading it because I thought it would be upsetting, but
its incredibly engaging and I could not put it down, I had to find out what
would happen to Zenji. The descriptions of the places and the character
building were some of the best I have read. I like that it deals with a little
written about component of World War II and is loosely based on a real person.
This is a book for High School only due to the level of military torture described.
HS– ESSENTIAL Reviewer: Stephanie Elementary School Librarian &
Author.
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