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Rainbow High
- Author:
- Sanders, Evelyn
- Subjects:
- Romance; World War Two; Espionage
- Geography:
- California
- Age:
- 15, 16, 17, 18
- Grade:
- 10, 11, 12
- Order code:
- 3458
- Price:
- $9.99
- Online Price:
- $7.99
- Class sets:
- 10 or more: $7.00 each. (Order code: 3458S)
The story is set in San Francisco, California, against the background of World War Two and its initial fallout on the emotions and lives of young men and women. It is a beautifully told, multi-faceted story of human relationships that satisfies the need for junior and senior high school girls to regard history as a living experience and to identify with its events through characters who personally interest them. This is a heritage romance that incorporates all the elements of good literature. A Rainbow High is mid-way between a lengthy classic and more leisurely reading.
Wendy Banister is the rich college girl who leaves school to do her bit for the war effort. She is regarded at first meeting with Army officials as just another socialite, silly and stupid. Thereupon, she decides to hide her wealthy background. She is fluent in Japanese, and her best friend is Gina, a Japanese-American, also wealthy. Captain Alex Mitchell is drawn to Wendy, but cannot deal with a relationship because he is reeling from the recent death of his younger brother at Pearl Harbor.
Bud, Wendy’s older brother, is one of the first to volunteer for service after Pearl Harbor. He is drawn to Joy, Wendy’s roommate and fellow base secretary. Joy is from Nebraska and a tight-money background. These young adults interact with each other and the wartime as the period lives again, this time with the young adult reader participating in every detail: fashions; opinions about women working; air raids and blackouts; the inside of a Japanese-American holding camp and Executive Order #90661; the America First Committee; the origin of “Rosie the Riviter;” a military hospital; battle news from cites abroad; the Allied and Axis alignments...
A Rainbow High has action on two levels, romance and espionage: there are concurrent love stories, a triangle, a mix-up, and the question of a network of spies operating along the California coast.
Evelin Sanders is the author of two other historical, heritage romances. Cherokee Windsong and Janine.
The story is set in San Francisco, California, against the background of World War Two and its initial fallout on the emotions and lives of young men and women. It is a beautifully told, multi-faceted story of human relationships that satisfies the need for junior and senior high school girls to regard history as a living experience and to identify with its events through characters who personally interest them. This is a heritage romance that incorporates all the elements of good literature. A Rainbow High is mid-way between a lengthy classic and more leisurely reading.
Wendy Banister is the rich college girl who leaves school to do her bit for the war effort. She is regarded at first meeting with Army officials as just another socialite, silly and stupid. Thereupon, she decides to hide her wealthy background. She is fluent in Japanese, and her best friend is Gina, a Japanese-American, also wealthy. Captain Alex Mitchell is drawn to Wendy, but cannot deal with a relationship because he is reeling from the recent death of his younger brother at Pearl Harbor.
Bud, Wendy’s older brother, is one of the first to volunteer for service after Pearl Harbor. He is drawn to Joy, Wendy’s roommate and fellow base secretary. Joy is from Nebraska and a tight-money background. These young adults interact with each other and the wartime as the period lives again, this time with the young adult reader participating in every detail: fashions; opinions about women working; air raids and blackouts; the inside of a Japanese-American holding camp and Executive Order #90661; the America First Committee; the origin of “Rosie the Riviter;” a military hospital; battle news from cites abroad; the Allied and Axis alignments...
A Rainbow High has action on two levels, romance and espionage: there are concurrent love stories, a triangle, a mix-up, and the question of a network of spies operating along the California coast.
Evelin Sanders is the author of two other historical, heritage romances. Cherokee Windsong and Janine.
