Red Berries White Clouds Blue Sky Author:Sandra Dallas It's 1942: Tomi Itano, 12, is a second-generation Japanese American who lives in California with her family on their strawberry farm. Although her parents came from Japan and her grandparents still live there, Tomi considers herself an American. She doesn't speak Japanese and has never been to Japan. But after the Japanese attack on Pear... more »l Harbor, things change.
Now "No Japs Allowed" signs hang in store windows, Tomi's family is ostracized, and even their friends and neighbors eye them suspiciously. Then Tomi's father is taken away, suspected of being a spy, and Tomi, her mother, and brothers are sent to an internment camp in Colorado. Just because they are Japanese.
Tomi becomes bitter, wondering how her country could treat her and her family like the enemy. What does she need to do to prove she is an honorable American?
Sandra Dallas shines a light on a dark period of American history in this moving story of a young Japanese American girl caught up in the prejudices and suspicions of World War II while finding hope in the unlikeliest of places.« less