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School Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 2017 | Middle Grade
Gr 5–7—Twelve-year-old Rosie wakes up on Sunday, December 7, 1941, expecting to read the newspaper funnies with her dad while her little brother Freddie plays with his toy soldiers and her mother bakes breakfast muffins. But as the title and date suggest, Rosie's day will be anything but normal. Rosie's family are U.S. citizens who have lived in Hawaii for many years—but they are German Americans, and when martial law is declared in Hawaii, Rosie's parents are taken away under suspicion of being...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on September 1, 2018
The Japanese attack on nearby Pearl Harbor shocks and frightens twelve-year-old Rosie. Then her parents (of German descent) are imprisoned as "en...Log In or Sign Up to Read More