Beyond Paradise
- ISBN-10
- 0688163815
- ISBN-13
- 9780688163815
- Series
- Beyond Paradise
- Category
- Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States / Asian American & Pacific Islander
- Pages
- 168
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Morrow Junior Books
- Author
- Jane Hertenstein
Description
This unusual first novel is based on true accounts of the imprisonment of American citizens in Japanese detention camps in the Philippines during World War U. Louise Keller travels with her missionary family to the Philippines on the eve of Pearl Harbor. At first the country seems like paradise, but soon Louise and her family are captured by the Japanese and forced to live in internment camps. An exciting and thought-provoking novel about human strength and weakness in wartime.
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Other editions
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- 2007-03-01
- 364 pages
- Ebook
- Wipf and Stock Publishers
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