Bibliograph

Type

Label

Missing in action, Dean Hughes

Language

eng

Index

no index present

resource.interestGradeLevel

5-8, Follett Library Resources

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Missing in action

resource.readingGradeLevel

4.0

resource.references

School Library Journal, March 2010Library Media Connection starred, May 2010Publisher's Weekly, February 2010Booklist, February 2010Horn Book, October 2010Bulletin (Center for Children's books), April 2010Kirkus Review, March 2010

Responsibility statement

Dean Hughes

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, MG+, 3.9, 7, 7, 135337

Summary

While his father is missing in action in the Pacific during World War II, twelve-year-old Jay moves with his mother to small-town Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, as a part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the nearby internment campWhile his dad is MIA during World War II, 12-year-old Jay moves with his mother to Utah, where he sees prejudice from both sides, being part-Navajo himself and through an unlikely friendship with Japanese American Ken from the internment camp

Target audience

pre adolescent

Classification