Fitzmaurice, Kathryn.

A diamond in the desert / Kathryn Fitzmaurice. - New York : Viking, c2012. - 258 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255).

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, thirteen-year-old Tetsu and his family are sent to the Gila River Relocation Center in Arizona where a fellow prisoner starts a baseball team, but when Tetsu's sister becomes ill and he feels responsible, he stops playing.

ISBN: 9780670012923 (hc)

LCCN: 2011012041

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Gila River Relocation Center--Fiction.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Fiction.
Baseball--Fiction.
Guilt--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.F5776 / Di 2012

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]