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Summary: A highly accessible and captivating account
Review: The Girl With The White Flag is the true and personal story of Tomiko Higa, who as a seven-year-old girl miraculously found the strength and perseverance to survive on her own in Okinawa, during the darkest days of World War II. A highly accessible and captivating account of the will to survive, The Girl With The White Flag is an original, candid, and attention gripping autobiographical narrative which is superbly written and enthusiastically recommended as being quite appropriate for readers of all ages.
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Summary: Inspirational story of young girl in Okinawa during WWII.
Review: The war experience that this six year old girl went through were remarkable. I taught this short book to high school students who are reluctant readers and they were highly interested in the book and moved by Tomiko's story. It is great for discussions on both WWII and survival.
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Summary: The Girl With the White Flag
Review: This book is about a young girl, who gets separated from her sisters and as to wonder the war fields alone. This book will make you cry, by hearing the tragic things this girl saw. "The Girl With the White Flag," was a good book, but it was very hard to believe such terrible things could happen to a little girl. The little girls name is Tomiko, and she meets up with this elderly couple. The woman is blind and the man has no legs or arms. They help Tomiko out a lot, and they give her a lot of strength and courage. She calls this couple grandma and grandpa. This book is not really a childrens' book though, because there are a lot of parts in the book that describe what this girl saw. One of the things she does is take the dead soldiers' food out of there backpacks. I enjoyed reading this book and I would like to find more out about world War II. The author of this book is Tomiko Higa.
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Summary: The Girl With the White Flag
Review: This book is about a young girl, who gets separated from her sisters and as to wonder the war fields alone. This book will make you cry, by hearing the tragic things this girl saw. "The Girl With the White Flag," was a good book, but it was very hard to believe such terrible things could happen to a little girl. The little girls name is Tomiko, and she meets up with this elderly couple. The woman is blind and the man has no legs or arms. They help Tomiko out a lot, and they give her a lot of strength and courage. She calls this couple grandma and grandpa. This book is not really a childrens' book though, because there are a lot of parts in the book that describe what this girl saw. One of the things she does is take the dead soldiers' food out of there backpacks. I enjoyed reading this book and I would like to find more out about world War II. The author of this book is Tomiko Higa.
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Summary: How A Little Kid Survives a Big Man's War Alone
Review: This is an incredible memoir of Mrs. Tomiko Higa's experience as a 7 year-old during the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1944. At the end of the battle, after emerging from a cave with a piece of white loincloth attached to a stick, she was photographed by an American soldier. Roughly 40 years later, she accidentally spotted the photo in a bookstore. Reluctant to come forward and identify herself at first, she finally did so after reading several false accounts about the identity of the little girl. The book is short, only 127 pages, and a fast read. It is also poignant--the prose is clean, the descriptions frank and insightful, the story inspiring. Mrs. Higa begins by telling of her life in Shuri, the ancient capital of the Ryukyu Kingdom known today as Okinawa. She progresses to the landing of the American forces at Kadena, her consequent hiding in air-raid shelters, and then her moving from cave to cave with her siblings to escape the fighting. She eventually becomes separated from them and has to survive the battle on her own. Where a child of 7 gains such strength and smarts is really beyond one's imagination and the manner in which Mrs. Higa describes her experience is what makes this book so worth reading.
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Summary: Oh How Lovely
Review: This is the only book that I have read cover to cover literally ten times. I have the book basically memorized. I first read it several year ago in my middle school years. Once I started reading I could not put it down! I will always have a copy of it in my house hold and it is in my top three books list.
This a story about a young girl about six years of age whom is amidst WWll in Japan. When her father leaves to go fight in the war the young lady along with her fellow sisters and brother to find safety. Along the way she some how get seperated from her family and is left alone for months dodging bullets, bombs and surviving by finding abandoned gardens and eating out of dead soldiers knapsacks. Her adventure takes her from running from a crazy soldier to a hole in the ground where she finds an old couple who take care of her until the young girl is forced to march around a warfront in the brightnees of day in front of American soldiers marching with a white flag in her hand. No written report could possibly do this book it's justice. You have to read and live the tale yourself.
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Summary: Oh How Lovely
Review: This is the only book that I have read cover to cover literally ten times. I have the book basically memorized. I first read it several year ago in my middle school years. Once I started reading I could not put it down! I will always have a copy of it in my house hold and it is in my top three books list.
This a story about a young girl about six years of age whom is amidst WWll in Japan. When her father leaves to go fight in the war the young lady along with her fellow sisters and brother to find safety. Along the way she some how get seperated from her family and is left alone for months dodging bullets, bombs and surviving by finding abandoned gardens and eating out of dead soldiers knapsacks. Her adventure takes her from running from a crazy soldier to a hole in the ground where she finds an old couple who take care of her until the young girl is forced to march around a warfront in the brightnees of day in front of American soldiers marching with a white flag in her hand. No written report could possibly do this book it's justice. You have to read and live the tale yourself.
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