Alice on the Island: A Pearl Harbor Survival Story (Girls Survive)

Shimose Poe, Mayumi

ISBN 10: 149657852X ISBN 13: 9781496578525

Publisher: Stone Arch Books, 2019

Synopsis

In 1941, thirteen-year-old Alice's days are filled with swimming in the Hawaiian sea, going to school, and helping watch her younger siblings. But on December 7, everything changes when she experiences an act of war--the bombing of Pearl Harbor. As the United States enters World War II, Alice's father is sent to a Japanese internment camp, leaving Alice and the rest of her family struggling to adjust to life without him. Featuring nonfiction support material, a glossary, and reader response questions, this Girls Survive story takes readers to one of history's most important moments.

About this title

About the Author:

Mayumi Shimose Poe is a freelance editor and writer. Recent work has appeared in Bamboo Ridge, Drunken Boat/Anomaly, Frontier Psychiatrist, Hawaii Women's Journal, Hunger Mountain, Hybolics, and Japan Subculture Research Center. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Hunger Mountain and won an Editor's Choice Award from Bamboo Ridge. She is a proud graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Vermont College of Fine Arts; has been on staff with Bamboo Ridge Press, Hawaii Women's Journal, and American Anthropologist; and is a reader for Black Lawrence Press. She lives with her husband and two sons in Los Angeles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stone Arch Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 149657852X
• ISBN 13: 9781496578525
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 112
• Illustrator: Forsyth Matt