Opinion: I had high expectations of this book when I started out. Amber shares her view on moving halfway around the world, surviving the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and what life was like as the military worked to respond to the attack. It’s like we’re moving to another planet.Īrriving in the fall of 1941, the Billows find themselves immersed in not only a new culture, but in the beginning of war in the Pacific. When Al Billows is assigned to cover the war from Honolulu, the family makes the move from Washington, DC to the much different territory of Hawaii. The Story: The diary of twelve year old Amber Billows shares the story of a daughter that is forced to move with her family time and again due to her father’s work as a journalist. It seemed fitting to add this short story to my reading agenda. I was just going to read one of these beloved Dear America books, but then two caught my eye, and let’s be honest, they don’t take long to get through! The event this story focuses on is the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, and I’m currently reading Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand which is a biography of a WWII POW in the Pacific theater. Why: This is the second book that I requested from my library after Joli posted her books from the 1990s article.
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