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Crystal City Lights

by Holly Moulder

Ages: 9+

Published: 2013

Publisher: Blue Marlin Pub.

ISBN: 978-0-9885295-0-2

Keywords: Internment, German Americans, World War II

When her family is sent to a German internment camp in 1943, Dottie, twelve, discovers a secret about her best friend's father that could put people in danger.