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Teensy Adam is fishing off Honolulu with friends on December 7, 1941, when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor erupts. Amid the confusion and devastation, he must navigate the battlefield and search desperately for his father, a naval officer aboard the U.S.S. Arizona. The story follows Adam's journey through the immediate aftermath of the attack, highlighting the personal toll of war on young lives in wartime Hawaii.
First publish date: 2001
Genre: War & Military Fiction/World War II Fiction
Authors: Harry Mazer
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