During
World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans
were rounded up and sent to internment camps in the desert. In
Kathryn Fitzmaurice's book A Diamond in the Desert, she looks at one
of these camps, Gila River, and the efforts of a group of boys to
organize an baseball team and create a baseball diamond in the middle
of the desert. Tetsu, a star first baseman at home in California, is
one of these boys. With his father shipped off to North Dakota for
questioning and his sister very ill, life in the camp is difficult.
Now there is a baseball team and the chance to leave the camp to
compete against teams from other camps. But Tetsu is worried about
his family. Should he play baseball or not? Based on a true story
this book gives a vivid peek into the Japanese internment camps of
World War II.
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