![]() ![]() Hesse ( The Girl in the Blue Coat) draws Margot and Haruko realistically and sympathetically, bolstered by research into WWII internment camps, in a moving book that successfully describes an unjust aspect of U.S. Praise for The War Outside: A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018 A 2019 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Pick A 2018 BCCB Bulletin Blue Ribbon Title A 2019 Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People 'Once again, Monica Hesse delivers an incredibly compelling and beautifully researched novel. Camp life, with its daily indignities and occasional tragedies, grows tense, and the two girls find their friendship intensifying. Army’s Japanese division, and wonders what her father had to do with her family’s relocation Margot’s father finds himself courted by Nazi idealists as their situation worsens, and her pregnant mother fears yet another miscarriage. Both are experiencing family problems: Haruko worries about her brother, who is serving in the U.S. (The camp differs from WWII War Relocation Authority–run camps to which West Coast Japanese residents were relocated en masse, an author’s note explains.) Although the two groups in the Texas camp rarely mix, the young women are immediately drawn to each other. ![]() In 1944, 17-year-old Japanese-American Haruko, from Colorado, and German-American Margot, from Iowa, are imprisoned with their families in a Department of Justice–run internment camp for “enemy aliens” suspected by the U.S. ![]()
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