The Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction is awarded annually to an author for a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young adults.
Forced to move with her family to an internment camp after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese-American Mitsi mourns her separation from her beloved dog and tries to keep up with the outside world with the help of a friendly neighbor back home. By the Newbery Honor-winning author of Hattie Big Sky. Simultaneous eBook.