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By Graham Salisbury //** Reviewed By Michael Thompson Eddy Okubo is a Japanese-American teenager living in Hawaii, in the middle of World War Two. He, his dad, and his brother Herbie are boat makers who make Japanese sampans (fishing boats). In the last year, two of their boats have burned mysteriously. This occurred the night before they were to be given to the buyer. Eddy somehow knows that this has something to do with them being Japanese. Eddy wants to prove to fellow Americans that he is American, by joining the army. He then goes to the army headquarters and signs up, two years underage. A few weeks later, the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. After the bombing, there is even more mistrust in the Japanese-American soldiers. Next, instead of going to fight in the war, the “Japs,” as they are called, are sent to an island in the Mississippi sound to work on a task they are told no one else can do properly.
 * //Eyes Of The Emperor

I would recommend this book because while I was reading it, I understood something I had never looked at too closely before: misjudgment. The story tells about what some Japanese-Americans went through during this difficult time. I think anyone who wants to know more about one of the effects of the Pearl Harbor bombing should read this book.