Dear America Series - Kirby Larson - THE FENCES BETWEEN US

Published: Nov. 20, 2009, 8:59 a.m.

Watch as Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson talks about her brand-new Dear America novel, The Fences Between Us. It's December 1941 and thirteen-year old Piper Davis awaits news of her brother, a solider stationed in Pearl Harbor. As Piper wonders what will become of her brother, she is faced with another grim reality—the internment of her Japanese American neighbors.