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Incommunicado
By (Author) Randall Platt
Skyhorse Publishing
Sky Pony Press
11th April 2017
United States
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Racism and anti-racism
FIC
Paperback
352
Width 140mm, Height 210mm
Just about everyone is incommunicado in the small, sleepy Oregon coastal town of Sea Park during the winter of 1941. That is, until Pearl Harbor is attacked. Then Sea Park springs to patriotic life. But is Ruby Opal Pearl (aka Jewels) Stokes the only person to see whats really happening here Tommy Kaye, the one person in her life who has provided security, shelter, and a smidgeon of respectand who owns the biggest resort on the coastis now the cause of the towns rage. Tommys Japanese ancestry makes him the prime target of an angry mob, not to mention hes also rich, has a shady past (which includes Jewelss eccentric mother), and everyone in town owes him money.
As the towns patriotism blossoms into paranoia and turns violent, Jewels has to do something to protect Tommy from internment (or worse), even if that something is going up against the town and the government, not to mention the FBI. Thus begins a twelve-year-old girls war within a war.
Randall Platt writes fiction for adults, young adults, and those who dont own up to being either. Platt has been a full-time writer for more than twenty-five years. Her young-adult fiction has twice been awarded the WILLA Literary Award, has been awarded the Will Rogers Medallion, has won the Keystone State Reading Award, and has received honorable mentions for the Washington State Book Award and the PEN Center USA Literary Award.