Elaine West is a young girl growing up in Fresno, California in the
wake of the Great Depression. While her family, like all families
of the time, has struggled to make ends meet over the past few
years, her life is generally happy and free from worry. Free, that
is, until the attack on Hawaii's Pearl Harbor plunges the United
States suddenly and unexpectedly into a global war. Now, the only
thing standing between the enemy and Elaine's home city of Fresno,
California is less than two hundred miles and a vast, unprotected,
open sea. Written in the tradition of Johnny Tremain and Across
Five Aprils, When the Lights Go On Again takes you back to
California in the 1940s, depicting everyday life and the war that
shaped it. Be there with Elaine as she grows up during the most
destructive conflict the world has ever seen. See the lives of the
people of Fresno during those dark years-- blackout drills,
shortages, food and gasoline rationing. Meet the young men from
throughout the nation who came through Fresno, headed for the
battlefields of the Pacific. Witness a nation of immigrants harass
and imprison their Japanese neighbors, casting their humanity aside
amid the terrifying realities of war. Learn, as Elaine did, of such
horrors as the Bataan Death March and the Holocaust. Watch the dawn
of the atomic age. See all of this and more, through the eyes of a
young girl who is quickly becoming a young woman as she tries
desperately to make sense of it all.
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