Eve Bunting

 

          In reading we are reading Eve Bunting books. I am reading “So Far From the Sea.” It is about a girl going to her grandfather’s grave site, and about the history of that place. I really like Eve Buntings books. They tell lots of details and she always has a reason for writing them.

            As the family is walking to the monument where the grandfather is buried, Laura’s dad has flashbacks on when he was in Manazar Relocation Camp. He tells Laura and her brother about the school he was in, the houses, or barracks that he lived in.  As they were leaving, Laura put her father’s old boy scout neckerchief by the grave. She did this because when her father had been taken to the camp, his father had told him to wear it so they would know that he was a true American. Grandfather hoped that when the soldiers came, they would not take him.

              I think that Eve Bunting wanted children to read this book so that they would know about the sadness that Japanese-Americans had to go though during World War 2.