INTERMEDIATE FICTION
Lieurance, Suzanne

The Lucky Baseball: My Story in a Japanese-American Internment Camp

(4) 4-6 Historical Fiction Adventures series. In 1773 Boston, seventeen-year-old Oliver Carter is an apothecary for Dr. Benjamin Church. Church sells secrets to the British and places Oliver in grave danger (Liberty's). After Pearl Harbor, twelve-year-old Harry Yakamoto's family is sent to Manzanar. Things are made bearable only by playing baseball (Lucky). Brief historical accounts are appended to the character-driven stories, which tend toward overexplanation. Reading list, websites. Review cover these Historical Fiction Adventures titles: The Lucky Baseball and Liberty's Son.

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