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The Girl with the White Flag by Tomiko Higa, translated by Dorothy Britton [in AsianWeek]

Girl with the White FlagFirst trade paperback edition of the harrowing memoir of a 6-year-old child who becomes separated from her family in the last days of World War II in Okinawa, Japan and somehow manages to survive alone.

Review: “New and Notable Books,” AsianWeek, June 27, 2009

Readers: Young Adult, Adult

Published: 2003 (United States)

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