Aleutian Sparrow, Karen Hesse

Here's an interesting YA book written in free verse. It took me probably one hour total to read this book about an historical period in the 1940's in Alaska, where a group of people from the Aleutian Islands are taken to relocation centers by US soldiers after a Japanese attack.

The narrator is a young girl who talks about the unfamiliar scenes, her friends, and her mom--who abandons her in the camp. It goes full circle from the time they are relocated to when they are able to return home.

A good, quick read.