The novel Early Sunday Morning was about a twelve-year-old girl named Amber Billows. Her father is a journalist and her family relocates quite a bit. Her journal starts out in Washington D.C. where Amber's father announces to her family that they would be moving to Hawaii where he can write more. Amber wasn't thrilled about the idea because she would have to make all new friends, and she would be far away from her extended family. She also judged Hawaii too quickly and thought it was going to be a substandard place to live. When she got there, the beauty of the islands amazed her. Her mother, who is an excellent cook, had her first dinner party in Hawaii on Thanksgiving with the Billows' family's new friends Lt. Lockhart and Mr. Poole. Everyone in Hawaii was worried about the Japanese coming, but Lt. Lockhart insisted, "The Japanese in Japan didn't worry him one bit." (page 75) It came to everyone's surprise that on early Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was under......
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