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EYES OF THE EMPEROR Graham Salisbury Hardcover | | Wendy Lamb Books | August 2005 | $15.95 | 0-385-72971-5 | Ages 12 up Hardcover Library Binding | Wendy Lamb Books | August 2005 | $17.99 | 0-385-90874-1 | Ages 12 up

Imagine living as a Japanese American during World War II right after Pearl Harbor . Eddy Okubo enlists in the U.S. Army to protect the country he loves, but he and his Japanese American buddies become targets of racial profiling and soon become guinea pigs. Sent to Cat Island as part of a strange experiment, they are humiliated and placed in extreme danger. The U.S. Army believes that the Japanese have a certain scent, and Eddy and his friends are used as bait to train attack dogs to sniff them out! Do they have the courage to survive, and will they be able to prove their loyalty?

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Prepared by Pat Strawn, Librarian, John Jay High School, San Antonio, Texas

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