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Attacked!: Pearl Harbor and the Day War Came to America
Author
Publication Date
November 14, 2023
Genre / Grade Band
Non-fiction / 6th − 8th
Language
English
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Description
The true story of Pearl Harbor as you've never read it before--action-packed, informative, and told through the eyes of a diverse group of people who experienced the terror of the unprecedented attack firsthand.
A single day changed the course of history: December 7, 1941. Nobody in America knew Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor was coming. Nobody was prepared for the aftermath. It became a defining moment from which the country never truly recovered.
Perfect for fans of Steve Sheinkin and Deborah Heiligman, this unflinching narrative puts readers on the ground in Pearl Harbor through the stories of real people who experienced the attack and its aftereffects. It alternates between the sweeping views and fateful decisions of leaders such as FDR and on-the-ground accounts from soldiers and sailors of all backgrounds as well as an array of other unique participants and observers. Attacked! sheds new, compelling light onto a history we think we know, what it means to be American, and the enduring lessons from an event we never saw coming.
Publication date
November 14, 2023
Genre
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780316592079
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
BISAC categories
JUV000000 - Juvenile Fiction | General
Library of Congress categories
World War, 1939-1945
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
Causes
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941
Causes
Kirkus
An inclusive, expansive take on a pivotal historical moment.
Publishers Weekly
Starred Review
In this important work, Favreau (Unequal) employs multiple perspectives to render a jaw-dropping account of Pearl Harbor, which President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) called "a date that will live in infamy." Through immediate and urgent firsthand accounts from American, Japanese, and Native Hawaiian citizens and military leaders, the author revisits the "interesting, tragic, and heroic" actions that occurred on Dec. 7, 1941. Sources include Takeo Yoshikawa (1912-1993), a Japanese spy who--while posing as a diplomat, dishwasher, and tourist--mapped out "every military installation on Oahu"; Kazuo Sakamaki (1918-1999), a Japanese mini-sub operator who became the first WWII POW detained in America; a nine-year-old Hawaiian boy whose family farm bordered Pearl Harbor; and Doris Miller (1919-1943), a Black mess hall attendant on the battleship West Virginia, who was awarded the Navy Cross for heroism. Alongside depictions of communal recovery, Favreau's balanced and nonpartisan narration renders the toll that the tragedy exacted on Native Hawaiians and the racism that Japanese Americans endured in incarceration camps. It's an extensively researched telling that is artfully conceived and grippingly told. Timelines and source notes conclude. Ages 10-up. Agent: Tanya McKinnon, McKinnon Literary. (Nov.)
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Marc Favreau
Marc Favreau is the acclaimed author of Crash: The Great Depression and the Fall and Rise of America and Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia, co-author (with Michael Eric Dyson) of Unequal: A Story of America, and co-editor (with Ira Berlin and Steven F. Miller) of Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation. Favreau is also the director of editorial programs at The New Press. He lives with his family in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
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