INCOMMUNICADO

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Just about everyone is incommunicado in the small sleepy Oregon coastal town of Sea Park during winter. Until Pearl Harbor that is when it springs to patriotic life. But is Ruby Opal Pearl (a.k.a. Jewels) Stokes the only person to see what’:s really happening here? Tommy Kiramoto the one person in her life who has provided security shelter and a smidgeon of respect—:and who owns the biggest resort on the coast—:is now the cause of the town’:s rage. Tommy’:s Japanese ancestry makes him the prime target of an angry mob not to mention he’:s also rich has a shady past and everyone in town owes him money. As the towns patriotism blossoms into paranoia and turns violent Jewels has to do something to protect Tommy from internment (or worse) even if that something is going up against the town and the government not to mention the FBI. Thus begins a twelveyearold girl’:s war within a war.Randall Platt’:s Incommunicado is both timely and timeless. Its about the meaning of courage and the willingness to stand up for whats right even when it goes against the prevailing attitudes of the time and place. Its also about the insidious way groups and communities can nurture ignorance and prejudice. But most of all it’:s an adventure story set in a town full of unforgettable characters during a time of great intrigue and peril no matter which enemy or on what front you fight.Sky Pony Press with our Good Books Racehorse and Arcade imprints is proud to publish a broad range of books for young readers—:picture books for small children chapter books books for middle grade readers and novels for young adults. Our list includes bestsellers for children who love to play Minecraft: stories told with LEGO bricks: books that teach lessons about tolerance patience and the environment and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.Randall Platt writes fiction for adults young adults those who dont own up to being either. Platt has been a fulltime writer for more than twentyfive years. Her young adult fiction has twice been awarded the Willa Cather Literary Award has been awarded the Will Rogers Medallion has won the Keystone State Reading Award and has received honorable mentions for the Washington State Book Award and the PEN Center USA Literary Award. She lives near Seattle Washington.The towns rage against Mr. Kaye feels achingly real and darkens the mood like the blackout cloths required on all windows. Despite her affection for him even Jewels at times cant help but wonder if hes the enemy. Shes a conflicted and complex character imbued with unending infectious spunk. . . . Readers will respond to one girls determination to do whats right during a dark time. —:Kirkus ReviewsIn Randall Platts able hands young Jewels comes to life as a cou

Data Publikacji: 2014-11-04
Wymiary: 209.55 mm 139.7 mm 35.56 mm 15.92 oz 451.32 gr