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Summary: This is a great book!!
Review: This is a very well written story by Graham Salisbury. It has won many awards. This story is about World War II and how it was to be a Japanese kid in the United States of America during the war. It's about Japanese traditions and how he has to honor those traditions even when Americans can't understand.
It's also alot about baseball. The kids in the story really love baseball and it helps them to play during the difficult times. People who like adventure and historical drama will like this book.
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Summary: Friendships, Sorrow and Fear
Review: UNDER THE BLOOD RED-SUN is a book about Tomikazu, his mom, dad, grampa and little sister living next to Pearl Harbor, 1941. In the beginning they're all doing fine, Papa fishing, Mama working at the Wilsons', Grampa selling his eggs, and Tomi playing baseball with his friend Billy. Then the Blood-Red sun flies overhead and bombs the harbor. Papa and Grampa get arrested, Mama loses her job, and Tomi has to keep the house running, go to school, sell the eggs and take good care of the family katana. Will be be able to keep it up? The book is filled with friendships, sorrow and plenty of fear.
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Summary: Under The Blood-Red Sun
Review: The story is about a 11 year-old boy named Tomi. Tomi has troubles with his grandfather, who is 100% Japanese and puts up Japan's flag in front of their house. Tomi and his grandfather alawys have fights about the flag. Tomi also goes through the troubles of being a Japanese-American in Hawaii after Pearl Harbor. I didn't like the book because I couldn't relate to the people in the story. I wouldn't recommended it, but maybe because I usually don't read books like this one.
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Summary: Under the Blood-Red Sun by Skidz
Review: Under the Blood-Red Sun
By: Lance Skidmore Have you ever been under a blood-red sun? Well, in the book Under the Blood-Red Sun by Graham Salisbury, Tomi and his buds are always under a blood-red sun(the eye of the Japanese flag, during WWII). Tomi is afraid of a war between Japan and the United States. This fierce battle comes to a happy ending, but Tomi is drafted to fight the war. The next time Grandpa hangs his Japanese flag outside he'd better think twice about it because some Americans now suspect anyone who is Japanese. Tomi's family is getting arrested for being Japanese. These happened because Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor during WWII and are taken to an internment camp.
I thought this book was full of action. I liked it and if you like action you'll like it too. Tomi rushes to his mom as she is being arrested. He then also gets arrested and put in a camp for Japanese Americans.
Tomi hates the internment camp and runs from the camp when an officer asks him where his card is.
Tomi's best friend is Billy, and Billy isn't in the camp with him. One example of Tomi and Billy's friendship is when Tomi gives Billy the baseball that he caught at a game. This item is precious to Billy. This book is perfect to me and you won't be able to stop reading after the first page. This is a beautiful book on action and friendship between two boys whose countries hate each other. Next time you're going to buy a book, buy Under the Blood-Red Sun by Graham Salisbury.
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Summary: Great Read
Review: The thing I liked most about this book was that it didn't profess that it was a good book, like some books do. It was a simple, normal, coming-of-age, feeling-out-human-relationships-and-what-the-world-has-to-offer story, set in a time of turmoil. Tomi, age 13, who has previously tried to avoid, as much as possible, his Japanese ancestry and just become a normal American kid(playing baseball; speaking only English; has a best friend who is kimpatsu, or blond), he must face the prejudice against him, and cherish Japanese culture and the things it has to offer. Though it is sad, it is a feelgood book, and written exactly like a thirteen year old would have said it.
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Summary: very good book
Review: Over all this was a good book, in spite of the time period it represented. I felt for Tomi in the beginning, none of the racial tensions between the Japanese and Hawaiian people seemed to effect Tomi much, but he knew that tensions existed. For one thing, he lived on the Wilson's property and had to endure the wrath of Keet, the middle son, on a daily basis. Two, his mother worked for the Wilson's as a maid, so he was encouraged not to make trouble for the family by fighting. And third, his grandfather was a die-hard supporter of his homeland, displaying the Japanese flag any time he chose, making Mr. Wilson angry. I'd say there was plenty here to give any eight-grader a few grey hairs. On top of all this, most of the boys Tomi plays baseball with, the Rats, are biracial, except his friend Billy, who managed to pursuade his father to stay at Roosevelt for eighth grade instead of going to private school with his brothers. The Rats are a good team, beating the Kaka'ako Boys, a cross town rival. It amazed me how quickly things changed after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese were outright despised on Hawaii, most of the seniors at Roosevelt left, and at least three of the members of the Rats had to get jobs to support their families. I cried over what became of the pigeons but laughed at what the pups ended up running across the field with. I would definitely read more of Graham Salisbury's books.
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Summary: Under the Blood-Red Sun
Review: What a great book. Everybody should at least hear this story once. I love it because it talks about kids I can relate to and it has real history mixed in between an enspiring story line. I admire the way Graham Salisbury described the way Japanese-Americans were treated during the beginning of WWII. The family he has created is definitely a replica of the Japanese families living in America at that time. So, if you haven't read this book I strongly reccomend you do soon.
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Summary: UNDER THE BLOOD RED SUN
Review: Do you like history or emotion in books? Well if you do then this is the book for you because Graham Salisbury puts those two things together to make an explosion called UNDER THE BLOOD RED SUN! Tomi Nakaji a thirteen year old Japanese boy lives on the land of the Wilsons in 1941 (WW2). He has loyal friends that play on his baseball team the rats. His mom is a maid for the Wilsons; his dad is a fisherman and noble man, and his grampa a cranky old fart. So his life is going pretty good for a thirteen/ year old boy. Until one day his whole life vanishes in one hour! Pearl Harbor gets bombed his dad and grampa get arrested. It feels like the word is against him except what's left of his family and the Rats! Read about Tomi's fight to be like everyone else. I loved this book because it had accurate info about the bombing of Pearl Harbor through the eyes of a civilian. I also loved it because prejudice is going on right now in are country to Arabs as it was in WW2 to Japanese people.
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Summary: Good Book
Review: Under the Blood Red Sun by Graham Salisbury is a story about a Japanese boy and his multi-racial friends, who are all very loyal to him, during the attack on Pearl Harbor. I like this book because it shows what life was like in a crisis at the place where it happened. We're experiencing a crisis now but, in my case, I am halfway across the country from it. It is interesting to imagine what it would be like to be in the middle of such a scary experience. In the end author leaves me a little unfulfilled but it's a great story anyway.
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Summary: Best Book
Review: Under the blood red sun is a book about real life during the pearl habor attack. I think that this book should be read by kids who like short action packed books. One of my favorite books.
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