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Early Sunday Morning

the Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941 (Dear America)

by Barry Denenberg · 2001

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Amber's journal chronicles two months that change her life forever. In late 1941 her family moves to Hawaii, landing in the epicenter of the attack that plunged the United States into World War II. As she watches her world literally explode in flames, Amber demonstrates that in the face of tragedy, kids can find the courage to help and to simply go on.

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