0 Ratings 4 Want to read 0 Currently reading 1 Have read Borrow Listen. Early Sunday morning the Pearl Harbor diary of Amber Billows by Barry Denenberg. President Roosevelt declared that it was "a day that will live in infamy." On December 8, Congress declared a state of war with Japan three days later Germany and Italy declared was on the United States. Early Sunday Morning by Barry Denenberg, 2007, Scholastic edition, in English. ships, including five battleships, and about 150 U.S planes were destroyed more than 2,300 soldiers, sailors and civilians were killed. The surprise attack involved a striking force of 353 Japanese aircraft. Pearl Harbor, on the Island of O'ahu, Hawaii, was attacked by the Japanese Imperial Navy at approximately 8:00 A.M., Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. As she watches her world literally explode in flames, Amber demonstrates that in the face of tragedy, kids can find the courage to help and to simply go on.-from the publisher In late 1941 her family moves to Hawaii, landing in the epicenter of the attack that plunged the United States into World War II. Amber's journal chronicles two months that change her life forever.
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