EPISODE · Nov 18, 2016 · 5H 32M
Missing in Action - Dean Hughes
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/321688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Missing in Action Author: Dean Hughes Narrator: Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 32 minutes Release date: November 18, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: Dirty. Lazy. Good-for-nothing. Jay Thacker is used to being called names because his dad is half Navajo. But things are different after he and his mother move to a small town in Utah to stay with his grandparents during WWII. Jay makes friends and earns money working the fields for his well-respected grandfather-but he encounters a problem in Ken, a fellow worker who's from the nearby Japanese internment camp. Ken's a Jap. And Jay's dad, who's been fighting for the navy out in the Pacific, is missing in action. This moving story about an unlikely friendship deftly addresses themes of prejudice and intolerance, providing readers a glimpse of the past that enlightens the present.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/321688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Missing in Action Author: Dean Hughes Narrator: Kirby Heyborne Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 32 minutes Release date: November 18, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: Dirty. Lazy. Good-for-nothing. Jay Thacker is used to being called names because his dad is half Navajo. But things are different after he and his mother move to a small town in Utah to stay with his grandparents during WWII. Jay makes friends and earns money working the fields for his well-respected grandfather-but he encounters a problem in Ken, a fellow worker who's from the nearby Japanese internment camp. Ken's a Jap. And Jay's dad, who's been fighting for the navy out in the Pacific, is missing in action. This moving story about an unlikely friendship deftly addresses themes of prejudice and intolerance, providing readers a glimpse of the past that enlightens the present.
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