![]() Amber Billows is not completely likeable nor is her family. ![]() The girl telling her own story is often as unaware of its significance as the reader this encourages empathy and identification with the story. A background section fills in the historical facts, along with photographs or drawings from the period. ![]() Like other books in the series, it both follows a formula and, yet, pushes the boundaries of that successful formula.Įach Dear America book takes the form of diary entries, so the reader experiences the young heroine’s life through her young, unreliable narrative voice. Amber Billows’ father is a journalist, and her family is abruptly relocated to Oahu, unaware of the impending disaster. Barry Denenberg wrote several, including Early Sunday Morning, an account of the Japanese surprise attack on the Pearl Harbor naval base in Hawaii. The authors, in fact, included several well-known middle grade and young adult novelists. ![]() Each was initially published in hard back with a ribbon marker the covers did not list the author’s name. Some of you may remember fondly the Dear America series of historical novels published by Scholastic between 19, or their reissue, along with some new books. Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows (Dear America series) – Barry Denenberg, Scholastic, 2001 ![]()
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