This is the companion piece to the VALLEY OF THE HEART CURRICULUM GUIDE. Explicit content has been edited to be suitable for Grades 4th-8th.
A sweeping wartime love story set in California’s Santa Clara Valley. When Thelma, a Japanese American farmer’s daughter, and Benjamin, the son of a Mexican American sharecropping family, fall in love, they are torn apart by Executive Order 9066 and World War II. Through forced incarceration, loss, and separation they fight to hold onto love, family, and hope.