This book in verse tells the story of an Aleutian girl during WWII. The Aleutian Islands are a part of Alaska, right off of the coast. The Japanese attacked the islands, and the people there "relocated" to camps on the mainland. Because of the way they looked, they were discriminated against, and the government would neither help them nor give them enough freedom to take care of themselves. After the war, the Aleutians who were left after disease and poor conditions, returned to the islands, where their homes had been left in ruin.
I found this very interesting because I had never known anything about the Aleutian Islands and especially about what happened to the people there during WWII.
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