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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Publication date August 1, 2004
Pages 136
Binding Hardcover
Book category Juvenile Fiction
ISBN-13 9780689855337
ISBN-10 0689855338
Dimensions 0.75 by 5.75 by 8.50 in.
Weight 0.55 lbs.
Availability§ Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price $16.95
Other format details juvenile
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
After his father is killed in the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Adam moves with his family from Hawaii to California and begins to doubt his relationship with his Japanese-American best friend, Davi Mori, but when Davi calls upon Adam to complete an important task involving his own father at an internment camp, Adam has to come to terms with his feelings and make the right decision for the sake of a friend.
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"What about what they did to my father?...The Japs killed him!"...I shouldn't have said "Jap," but [Davi] knew I didn't mean him. It was the country where his parents were born. If his parents hadn't come to Hawaii, Davi would have been born there too. I lay there looking up into the dark, thinking, yes, it could have been him on one of those planes.

After witnessing the USS Arizona sink in Pearl Harbor -- with his father aboard -- fifteen-year-old Adam Pelko, along with his mother and young sister, moves from Hawaii to California. Without his dad, facing a new school and new surroundings is hard enough, but then Adam's best friend, Davi Mori, writes from Hawaii asking for help in finding his father. Davi and his family are Japanese American, and his father has been arrested and is imprisoned somewhere in the United States.

What is Adam to do? Can he risk traveling to Manzanar, a Japanese internment camp, and asking questions? At a time when the nation is threatened and all foreigners are viewed with suspicion, who can Adam trust?

In this riveting follow-up to his acclaimed book A Boy at War, Harry Mazer explores questions of friendship and loyalty against the backdrop of World War II, a time when boys had to grow up fast.

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Hardcover
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from Simon & Schuster (August 1, 2004)
9780689855337 | details & prices | 136 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $16.95
About: After his father is killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Adam, his mother, and sister are evacuated from Hawaii to California, where he must deal with his feelings about the war, Japanese internment camps, his father, and his own identity.
Paperback
Book cover for 9781416914044
 
Reprint edition from Simon & Schuster (March 28, 2006)
9781416914044 | details & prices | 136 pages | 5.00 × 7.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.20 lbs | List price $6.99
About: After his father is killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Adam, his mother, and sister are evacuated from Hawaii to California, where he must deal with his feelings about the war, Japanese internment camps, his father, and his own identity.
Reinforced
from Demco Media (March 28, 2006); titled "Boy No More"
9780606350211 | details & prices | List price $13.41
About: "WHAT ABOUT WHAT THEY DID TO MY FATHER?
Prebinding
Book cover for 9781435235366
 
1 reprint edition from Paw Prints (August 11, 2008)
9781435235366 | details & prices | 212 pages | List price $14.99

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