At a glance
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Albert Whitman & Company
- Subgenre
- Historical
- Words
- 14,019
- Section
- Middle Grade
Dust of Eden
After Pearl Harbor, thirteen-year-old Mina Masako Tagawa and her Japanese American family are forced from their Seattle home into a wartime incarceration camp.
Themes
Mood
Feels sad, tense, hopeful.
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