Stanley Hayami, Nisei Son is Joanne's latest book, scheduled for publication by Brick Tower Books this fall.

Stanley Hayami was sixteen when he was sent to Heart Mountain, an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II.

He kept a diary of his life in the camps, augmented with sketches and drawings.

In 1944, like many young Nisei men, he was drafted into the 442nd Infantry Regimental Combat Team, an all-Nisei unit, continuing to write and earning a Bronze Star. He never lost his faith in America, and remained defiantly patriotic to the last. He was killed in combat in Northern Italy on April 23rd, 1945, while trying to help a fellow soldier. He was nineteen years old.

To download a full-sized copy of the cover, click here.

Dear Miss Breed won the National Council for the Social Studies Carter G. Woodson Book Award for 2007 and was chosen for the New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age 2007.

Dear Miss Breed has also received a Starred Review Dear Miss Breed received from Booklist. Read the review here.