Author: Ken Mochizuki
Illustrator: Dom Lee
Genre: Historical Fiction
Grade level: 1-6
Awards: Parents' Choice Award
Baseball Saved Us is a book about a boy named Shorty and his family. They are sent to a camp after the Pearl Harbor attack. There he and his father decide to build a baseball field to make everyone feel happier in a tough time. Shorty finds that playing not only makes him happy, but causes him to gain respect for himself.
The illustrator of this book is Dom Lee, who creates realistic looking pictures throughout the books. They show the hard time that the Japanese descendant Americans went through at this time. The illustrator does not make the Japanese descendants look a certain way. They look like they could be anyone. This way the reader can feel based on the story not on the way the characters look.
This is a great read for students from ages six to twelve. This story has a great tale of the underdog overcoming a hard time. This story will allow students to experience what it was like to go through the aftermath of Pearl Harbor from a different perspective that one I have ever seen.
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