Heroes

Yet another winner by Alan Gratz!  In this historical fiction story, we meet two friends who live near the Pearl Harbor naval base.  Their dads are pilots in the Navy.  WWII has started but Americans in Hawaii have not really felt its impact....until Dec 7, 1941.  Frank and Stanley are best friends touring one of the battleships when the Japanese attacks start.  They scramble for their lives, while chaos erupts all around them.  They survive but their friendship is challenged when after the attacks, their community turns on its Japanese1American members.   (FIC GRA)