Hunt for the Bamboo Rat

from readingbeader

I put off reading this because I'm tired of WWII stories, at least Holocaust ones; I've read a ton of those. But this is not one of those. Bamboo Rat is about an American born Japanese boy from Hawaii. It was a bit of a slow start but quickly picks up after Zenji is employed by the Army to transl...

from lilibrarian

Zenji, a 17-year-old Japanese-American born in Honolulu, is recruited by the army prior to WWII to go undercover in Manila. When the war catches up to him he is taken prisoner, and spends about four years imprisoned and trying to find his way home.