A review by pavi_fictionalworm
Stealing Home by J. Torres

4.0

Disclaimer: An eARC was provided via The Publisher via Netgalley as part of the Blog Tour. The Thoughts, opinions & feelings expressed in the review are therefore, my own.

This is a Historical Middle Grade Fiction based on the internment of Japanese Americans by the US Government and the Canadian Government during the WWII.

Stealing Home, takes place just before and after the attack on Pearl Harbour - and shows the kind of discrimination and persecution as well as the displacement that Japanese Americans and people of Japanese origins faced in the US and Canada.

Written for young children, to teach them about the history and their bleak situations that Japanese Americans found themselves in during the WWII. So, this is a short read, and doesn’t go much in detail; though I do wish it had.

Sandy Saito is a young boy who lived for Baseball and the Adani team that is the pride of the Japanese Canadian community. Everything changes after the attack on Pearl Harbour - the kids at his school start treating him and other Japenese kids differently, other families are soon being taken away to places unknown and the most horrific of all - his father, a doctor in his community is separated and taken to another camp while he, his younger brother and his mother have been taken to another camp.

Stealing Home is the start of talking about the atrocities that the Japanese Americans and Canadians faced by their own government and one which they haven’t ever been compensated for - but we need more books and more awareness, especially for kids who need to understand their own history.



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