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Dragonfly Dreams
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781646634231
Publisher: Forward Press
Published: Aug 31 2021
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Awards: Benjamin Franklin Award, Benjamin Franklin Award, Benjamin Franklin Award, Benjamin Franklin Award
If a dragonfly lands on you, it means change is coming.
You better watch your dreams, Nini.
Living in China when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Nini and her family don't realize that their world is about to collapse. Nini and her best friend Chiyoko are on their way home from school when they are stopped by Japanese soldiers and forced to step aside for a car with a mysterious passenger. Uncertain of what is happening, they create a secret hiding place to leave messages for each other.
Nini's family is soon forced into hiding to protect her American mother from being arrested and sent to an internment camp. When the family situation becomes desperate amid circumstances of hunger, disease, and quarantine, Nini is the only one who can make the dangerous journey across the war-torn city to save her family and find her best friend.
Not since Empire of the Sun has a book captured the drama of Westerners trapped in China during World War II.
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