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  <title><![CDATA[Tallgrass]]></title>
  <isbn><![CDATA[0312360193]]></isbn>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;An essential American novel from Sandra Dallas, an unparalleled writer of our history, and our deepest emotions...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;During World War II, a family finds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes (and suspicions) turn to the newcomers, the interlopers, the strangers.&lt;br&gt;This is Tallgrass as Rennie Stroud has never seen it before. She has just turned thirteen and, until this time, life has pretty much been what her father told her it should be: predictable and fair. But now the winds of change are coming and, with them, a shift in her perspective. And Rennie will discover secrets that can destroy even the most sacred things.&lt;br&gt;Part thriller, part historical novel, &lt;i&gt;Tallgrass&lt;/i&gt; is a riveting exploration of the darkest--and best--parts of the human heart.&lt;br&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_day type="integer">3</original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer">4</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2007</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Tallgrass</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Sandra Dallas]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book!  I bought a copy of it last summer when the author was signing copies in a little bookstore in Fort Madison, Iowa, and gave it to my wife as a birthday gift.  Last week I picked it up at the library on CD to listen to while driving.   listening to it was a pleasant suprise.  The s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13372327">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Feb 26 19:37:49 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was written beautifully through the eyes of a young farm girl, Rennie Stroud. The setting is Ellis, Colorado during World War II and the Japanese incarcerations in internment camps. It discusses the narrow-mindedness, fear, and stereotyping that has repeated itself throughout the history o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15863958">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20203668">
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  <date_added>Tue Apr 15 03:43:30 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tallgrass is the fictional name of a Japanese internment camp in Colorado during World War II. The plot centers on the tension between locals and the Japanese, a conflict that escalates dramatically after a young girl is found raped and murdered. The author shows us the community struggles through t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20203668">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18953988">
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  <read_at>Sat May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat May 17 06:36:26 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sandra Dallas is back! I had thoroughly enjoyed Dallas's earlier novels but was sorely disappointed with The Chili Queen so it was with some apprehension that I approached Tallgrass. Would she be able to deliver? <br/>Deliver she did. Only two or three pages in and I was hooked (the hallmark of a g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18953988">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47394658">
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A compelling story about a WWII Japanese internment camp in Southern Colorado.  The story is told from 13 year old Rennie's point of view.  She grew up a lot that year.  The murder at the beginning made me want to finish to see who did it.  A simple story that I could see where it was going most of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47394658">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very close to being five stars for me. Excellent character development and plot, about a time in our history that has been all but forgotten - the internment of people of Japanese ancestory on the West Coast during World War II. This book is one you really cheer for the good guys in and hiss at the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19138744">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41712824">
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    <body><![CDATA[What life was like on the homefront during WWII.  Also info about the Japanese/Americans who were placed in camps here in the US.  Awesome book and listed as a book that you should give to yourself!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finally finished this adult novel. And I say finally because it took me about a week and that is tooooo long. First of all, it's preachy. From the very first chapter, I thought the author should have just said, &quot;Japanese-American internment camps are really, really bad and we should be ashame...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73025108">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I heard about Tallgrass, by Sandra Dallas, earlier this year while listening to NPR’s list of books “to give to yourself” this past holiday season. Then, more recently I saw it on the young adult shelves at the local public library. I decided to give it a read, partly as a departure from the j...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44156912">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a lovely book. The writing is almost poetic, very descriptive, and you feel like you're living in Ellis. The first half of the book is a bit on the slow side. I didn't think about putting it down, though. The second half picks up a bit. <br/><br/>The story is about a girl in the small Colo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78021619">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Prior to reading Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas, I had never really reflected on the plight of Japanese Americans who were placed in internment camps during World War 2.  I found myself drawn into this story initially by the strong voice of the narrator, Rennie Stroud.  Several reviews I read compared R...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59535324">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The main character of this book is Rennie, a teenage girl who's family lives next to a Japanese internment camp in southeast Colorado during WWII.  I didn't like this book because the characters were so one-dimensional.  They were either good guys or bad guys, and no one ever changed or learned anyt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59232919">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[NPR: Five Books to Give Yourself<br/><br/>When a small farming town in Colorado is chosen as the site for one of the several internment camps that sprang up to imprison Japanese-Americans relocated from the West Coast during World War II, most neighbors react with suspicion and fear. The Stroud fami...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42670607">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44102589">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[With Tallgrass, I did something I rarely do.... about a 1/3 of the way through reading the book I got to a place in the plotline where I thought I'd kind of figured the way the author was heading, so I skipped to the last chapter or so to see what happened.  After reading the ending, I found an inte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44102589">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66884419">
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The internment camps into which Japanese Americans were forced after Pearl Harbor have, at last, been garnering much interest lately. Sandra Dallas has made once such camp the center of Tallgrass. Rennie Stroud has just become a teenager when the Japanese arrive in her Colorado hometown, and her lif...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66884419">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75494699">
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this story set in Eastern Colorodo during WWII. Thirteen year old Renny, who lives on a beet farm, narates this story about the hate and prejuidice that take over her town when Japanese American evacuees are sent to live at the Tallgrass camp in her town of Ellis. Things came to a head when ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75494699">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the United States government set up a number of internment camps for Japanese-Americans. One of these camps, located in Colorado, housed evacuees from California. Sandra Dallas's fictionalized camp, Tallgrass, sits right on the edge of town where 13 year old Re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39782986">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This short novel describes what life was like - for both white Americans and Japanese Americans - in Ellis, Colorado, where the Tallgrass Internment camp was peopled by Japanese Americans from California during WWII. Great reading. Does not make one proud of some of the folks in Ellis, but there are...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10621868">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rennie is a 13 year old girl living in rural Colorado during World War II.  A Japanese internment camp is established near her ranch, much to the dismay of the patriotic town folk.  Predictable incidents of racism and xenophobia occur, along with a mysterious murder.  Rennie's parents gently and ski...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74156123">more...</a>]]></body>
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