Tallgrass Young Adult Fiction / Alternative History / Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism / Dystopian • School Library Journal Best

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she eats cookies instead of vegetables

He acts like he's in love with her

a village well brings life

Tallgrass Young Adult Fiction / Alternative History / Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism / Dystopian • School Library Journal BestDuring Word War II, a family fnds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes (and suspicions) turn to the newcomers, the interlopers, the strangers. This is her town as Rennie Stroud has never seen it before. She has just turned thirteen and, until this time, life has pretty much been what her father told her it should be: predictable and fair. But