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Salisbury, Graham.
HOUSE OF THE RED FISH
New York : Wendy Lamb Books, 2006
IL 5-8, RL 4.2
ISBN 0385731213
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1942 - Tomi’s father and grandfather are in Japanese internment camps.
In Hawaii, especially, there is anti-Japanese feelings.  Money is tight. Tomi tries to salvage his family honor and their fishing boat but red tape and bullies get in the way.  (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Awards nominee, 2008-2009)
SUBJECTS: World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Fiction.
                    Japanese Americans -- Fiction.
                    Hawaii -- History -- 1900-1959 -- Fiction.
                    Historical fiction.

 
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