A Diamond in the Desert
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Twelve-year-old Tetsu eats, sleeps and breathes baseball. It’s all he ever thinks about. But after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tetsu and his family are forced from their home into an internment camp in the Arizona desert with other Japanese Americans, and baseball becomes the last thing on his mind. The camp isn’t technically a prison, but it sure feels like one when there’s nothing to do and no place to go. So when a man starts up a boys’ baseball team, Tetsu is only too eager to play again…
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KidsAwardsPrint BooksPaperbackBookMasterJUVFiction & Literature - KidsPeople, Places & Cultures - Kids FictionU. S. People, Places & Cultures - Kids FictionSports & Recreation - Kids FictionHistorical Fiction - Kids2015 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Master List2014 New-York Historical Society Children's History Book Prize FinalistsIllinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book AwardKids' Book AwardsPrevious Master Lists - Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book AwardNew-York Historical Society Children's History Book PrizePrevious Finalists - New-York Historical Society Children's History Book Prize



