It’s a nice touch.ĭoes it break the slate? At first, Piper is nowhere near a Slatebreaking character. The updated covers also feature gold embossing which makes the hardcover books look more like an actual diary. American incarceration camps that came about after the United States got involved in WWII. I appreciate the background detail in the portrait, hinting that Piper will somehow be involved with the U.S. I miss the old portraits, especially because Piper in the portrait looks much older and more mature that the 7th grader we meet at the beginning of the book. The images on the older covers were often taken from paintings that were created in the time period about which the book was written. The picture of Piper on this book is very realistic, and you can tell that it was created in 2010 to look like something from the 1940s. They are still beautiful covers featuring illustrated portraits of the protagonist. Because the old 1990s covers are so familiar and meaningful to me, I was happy to see Scholastic maintain some of those elements in the updated series. Genre: Historical fiction from the Dear America seriesįace Value: This is the first book from the 2010 relaunch of the series. The inclusion of an historical note, web resources, and an audio clip from President Roosevelt's speech about "the day that shall live in infamy" make this powerful audiobook even more robust.-Stephanie A.The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941 by Kirby Larson. The scenes in the Japanese internment camps are heartbreaking, and Piper's confusion, anger, and frustration is palpable. Among the most powerfully expressed emotions are those that Piper feels as she tries to understand what is happening to her Japanese friends as a result of newly imposed government regulations. Listeners will hold their breath along with Piper as she awaits the fate of her brother and his friends.
Each event that Piper and her family must face-from her sister needing to find a job and ultimately marrying her boyfriend before he gets deployed to the food and materials rationing they must endure-is clearly conveyed through her diary entries and Davis's narration. With Elaina Erika Davis's poignant pacing and clearly voiced characterizations, listeners will feel the emotional torments and celebrations that Piper experiences in this historical novel by Kirby Larson (Scholastic, 2010). Gr 5-8-Piper Davis, the 13-year-old daughter of a pastor for a Japanese Baptist church, shares her diary as she goes from worrying about when her father will let her date and wear lipstick to agonzing about her older brother who was stationed at Pearl Harbor on the Arizona when it was attacked on December 7, 1941.
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