Salisbury, Graham. Prisoners of the empire books.

"Special anniversary edition"--Cover

Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local bully, until life with his immigrant Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941

"Twentieth-anniversary edition"--Introduction

Sequel: House of the red fish

"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Delacorte Press, New York, in 1994."--Title page verso

640L

Decoding demand: 88 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 85 (very high) Structure demand: 87 (very high)

Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction