A Diamond in the Desert

Kathryn Fitzmaurice

Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, Feb 16, 2012 - Juvenile Fiction - 258 pages

For Tetsu, baseball is so much more than just a game

On December 6, 1941, Tetsu is a twelve-year-old California boy who loves baseball. On December 7, 1941, everything changes. The bombing of Pearl Harbor means Tetsu's Japanese-American family will be relocated to an internment camp.

Gila River camp isn't technically a prison, but with nowhere to go, nothing to do, and no time frame for leaving, it might as well be. So when someone has the idea of building a baseball diamond and starting a team, Tetsu is overjoyed. But then his sister gets dangerously sick, forcing him to choose between his family and his love of the game. This is an impeccably researched, lyrical story about baseball, honor, and a turbulent period in U.S. history.

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User Review  - Kobe Lin - Goodreads

I think the book A Diamond in the Desert was an amazing book. I think it was really interesting because the setting takes place in a Japanese internment camp after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The ...

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User Review  - Ellen - Goodreads

A Diamond in the Desert tells the often forgotten story of Japanese Americans who were shuffled off to internment camps in a fit of post-Pearl Harbor paranoia. There in the desert, they looked for ...

About the author

Kathryn Fitzmaurice (www.kathrynfitzmaurice.com) is also the author of The Year the Swallows Came Early. She lives with her husband, two sons, and her dog, Holly, in Monarch Beach, California.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Diamond in the Desert
• Author: Kathryn Fitzmaurice
• Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 2012
• ISBN: 0670012920, 9780670012923
• Length: 258 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Family / General; Juvenile Fiction / Historical / Military & Wars; Juvenile Fiction / Historical / United States / 20th Century; Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States / Asian American; Juvenile Fiction / Sports & Recreation / Baseball & Softball