Pearl Harbor Is Burning!: A Story of World War II

Authors: Kudlinski, Kathleen V.
Lexile: 490,
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
BISAC/Subject: JUV016150, JUV016080, JUV011020
ISBN: 9781101174289, Related ISBNs: 0140345094, 0670834750, 1101174285, 9780140345094, 9780670834754
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 64,
Audience: Children/juvenile
Synopsis: Frank thought that he'd found a new friend--but he never expected a war to come between them.

It's 1941 , and Frank is miserable. If only his family had never moved to Hawaii. Everyone and everything on the island looks and sounds strange to him. Then Frank meets Kenji, a Japanese-American boy who just might become a friend. But the unthinkable happens--Pearl Harbor is bombed , and by the Japanese! Can Frank and Kenji even be friends?
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