Dear America: The Fences Between Us: The Diary Of Piper Davis: Seattle, Washington, 1941 (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
This was a reread for me and it is still one of my favorites! I love reading historical fiction and especially these Dear America books. This book is the Diary of Piper Davis, daughter of a minister. Her brother recently enlisted in the Navy. When the Pearl Harbor attack happens everything changes around her world and all the ones around her. Many of the Japanese people must go off to the prison camps. Not only Japanese but Japanese-Americans. Her father is a minister of many Japanese people ,so he helps them as much as possible. Me and Piper are around the same age and I can relate. Not much of what is happening around her but how her feelings are. I just love these books so much because they have historical events but they show a persons point of view about what they think about it. I especially love books about Pearl Harbor because they always are in a different persons point of view. I recommend this book to people who love Historical Fiction and learning about Pearl Harbor. It really shows a lot especially in diary form. Piper's diary entries tell of her life at home as a preacher's kid, sister of a soldier, sister, and young girl of the 1940's. Things are even more complicated in her life as her father's church is made of Japanese Americans and the Japanese have just bombed Pearl Harbor. Her mother has died and her sister gets married. Her love of photography helps her keep her brother updated on things at home, but the war brings lots of worries and problems to her life. This book provides a lot of history and is often based on events that really happened in this time period.
What do You think about Dear America: The Fences Between Us: The Diary Of Piper Davis: Seattle, Washington, 1941 (2010)?
Great writing for 10 year olds! I enjoyed reading a different perspective about World War II.
—borah
First book I read in the Dear America Series its amazing
—yvrahm
