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When the Rainbow Goddess Wept

Age Level:
YA
Nine-year-old Yvonne Macaraig’s family flees their pleasant home in Ubec City to join a guerrilla movement in the jungle during the 1941 Japanese invasion of the Philippines. She grows to realize that even if her family survives and retires to their home that nothing will ever be the same.

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