Thin Wood Walls

by David Patneaude

Book Overview

Eleven-year-old Joe Hanada likes playing basketball with his best friend, Ray, writing plays and stories, and thinking about the upcoming Christmas holiday. But his world falls apart when Japanese... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0618342907
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 1.0" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

the best book ever

The genre of this book is historical fiction it tells thing that happened in history. the theme of this story is about a family who dad had a friend who lets them pick out a chrismas tree, so a little boy named mike picked the perfect tree, when he went to school he told his friends all about it, but his dad said they had to wait because where were they going to put it if they took it home, so they waited a few days later and when they came back someone had stole it. the setting is at the woods, at home, and school. the problem is that someone else spotted the tree and they took it and mike was so upset he didnt talk for a few day .

Eye opening information

This book is a little slow to start, but as you continue reading you just may find yourself wanting to know what happens to each of the family members. It was an eye opening story for me in learning about the Japanese internment camps and just how the Japanese people were treated even when many of them had nothing to do with the events in the world at that time. I would definitely recommend this book to middle school students as well as adults.

Rough patches through a teens life

This was the greatest book i have read so far this year! It is in the time of World War 2 which would be a pretty hard time for a teenager. Joe Hanada has lots of friends and plays basketball and marbles all the time. His country is starting to go into war and him and all his jap friends get treated badly and rude and they get commented on all the time. Joe starts loosing a whole bunch of friends by then. He also starts hearing a lot of information on the news and on the radio. His whole neighborhood got turned against them and he did have a ton of friends and now he only has like 5 friends. Joe makes a lot more though as time goes on. FBI comes and takes Joe's father to Mexico and to a lot of other places in only a few months. They take Joe and the rest of the family, like his brother and his mom and grandma to a Concentration camp. When they go to concentration camp it really hurts them and everyone else. They don't get to do anything they are locked up behind bars or a barbed wire fence. This was a great book and if you want to find out more then you should buy this book and read it. If i loved it then you can love it too. I read this book three times and i still read it. So that'll tell ya it is the best book ever and it teaches us that we should be proud that we have family and people that love us, because they didn't have many people that liked them or have many family members that lived around them. So it would be hard to be a teenager during World War 2. So think about it buy this book!

An informative, moving, and thought provoking book

I love historical fiction, though usually not pieces set in the 20th century. This book however was an exception. I learned much about a shameful episode in our country's history and am planning on further study because this book has really picqued my interest. The members of the fictional Hanada family consist of a range of character types that the author has deftly crafted to introduce readers to a range of internment camp experiences. This book is emotionally satisfying. It is a perfect tool to teach young people about the internment camp debacle.