This Light Between Us

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From award-winning YA author Andrew Fukuda comes The Light Between Us , a powerfully affecting story of World War II about the unlikeliest of pen pals—a Japanese American boy and a French Jewish girl—as they fight to maintain hope in a time of war. "I remember visiting Manzanar Camp in California and standing in the windswept plains where over ten thousand internees were once imprisoned, their voices cut off. I remember how much I wanted to write a story that did right by them. Hopefully this book delivers."— Andrew Fukuda In 1935, ten-year-old Alex Maki from Bainbridge Island, Washington is disgusted when he's forced to become pen pals with Charlie Lévy of Paris, France—a girl . He thought she was a boy. In spite of Alex's reluctance, their letters continue to fly across the Atlantic—and along with them the shared hopes and dreams of friendship. Until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the