SuitabookDear America
Kirby Larson
- Reading
- Read together in short stretches, pausing to distinguish Piper's personal diary perspective from the wider historical events. Let the reader set the pace around the wartime material.
- Themes
- Diary perspective: Piper chronicles her experience as the war reaches the home front and Japanese American incarceration forms part of the story. The diary structure frames large historical events through one girl's experience.
- Japanese American incarceration: The story takes readers through Japanese American incarceration during the Second World War. The story includes Japanese American incarceration as part of its wartime subject matter.
- Worth knowing
- The story deals with a devastating attack, wartime upheaval and Japanese American incarceration, so it engages with serious historical harm and loss.