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Title: Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941 (Dear America) by Barry Denenberg ISBN: 0-439-32874-8 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.26 (27 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful book to read
Comment: I loved this book. It really tells you about how the people felt about Pearl Harbor not just what happenend. It is a really good book for learning about Pearl Harbor. It tells the story about Amber Billows and her family as they deal with the crazy world around them. All of the sudden her Japanesse neighbors and friends are being sent to different places and being treated very different. I recomend this book to anyone who wants to learn about Pearl Harbor and wants to learn about what really happened to the people affected by it.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good, but not one of Denenberg's best
Comment: I had very high expectations for Barry Denenberg's latest addition to the Dear America series and was slightly disappointed with Early Sunday Morning. Maybe it was due to the fact that the Pearl Harbor craze had died down a couple of months ago, and wasn't as hot as it was in May with the movie, and numerous other books. One of the drawbacks was it being rather short, at times I felt some parts of the novel lacking details, ect. And obviously not giving anything away, the very end was so vague. But overall I liked the characters and the story as a whole a lot.
The novel starts out in October of 1941 in Washington D.C. Her father is a newspaperman, so her family is always moving around and Amber resents the fact that she doesn't ever get to stay in one place, and having to meet new friends. When her father is re-located to Pearl Harbor, she, along with the rest of her family, is shocked, but they go. Amber grows to love the lush tropical paradise. But when that infamous day comes, Amber's life changes forever.
I read Early Sunday Morning two days before our own infamous day in the 21st century, and recommend this to old and young alike, especially with what our country is going through now and what it went through 60 years ago.
Rating: 4
Summary: Quite a good addition to the series....
Comment: Amber Billows and her family follow their father wherever he goes, be it Washington D.C.,Boston, San Francisco or...Hawaii. Amber hates moving- just for once, she wants to start school in September, like everyone else. However, her father is a reporter, and he has to go where he's sent, so the whole family pack up their home in Washington and head for Hawaii.
Amber begins to adapt to life in Hawaii, but soon, something terrible happens, so unexpected that it seems like nothing in this tenjiku, (heavenly place) will ever be the same again...
I read this book all in one sitting, and after I finsihed it, I wasn't very impressed. However, as I review it a year later, I've decided that I do think its a good book. It is very short, which is my only real complaint.
I was especially interested in how it talked about the predudice against the Japanese residents of Oahu after the bombing, something which, when I first read the book, I'd heard very little about. I also liked how Amber was new to the island, which gave the story a bit more plot, such as a new house, new friends and a new life, as opposed to someone who was living on the island and described the events, therefore just making it a purely "Pearl Harbor book".
Overall, I feel that while I initially thought it to be boring and short, I now am glad to own Early Sunday Morning, because I think its well written and has a solid plot to be linked with the Pearl Harbor catastophe.
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