Northwest author Randall Platt is celebrating the release of her latest young-adult novel “Incommunicado” with a book signing at the Barnes & Noble, located in the Kitsap Mall in Silverdale.

The signing is scheduled on Dec. 14, 2-4 p.m.

Platt chiefly hails from Gig Harbor where she lived for 35 years. She wrote 10 novels while living south of the Kitsap border. Today, though, she calls Kitsap home, as she releases her 11th novel.

“Incommunicado” is aimed at readers 10-years-old and older. The book deals with something Kitsap communities are well aware of; the Japanese internment camps during WWII. Bainbridge Island was the first community to have its Japanese citizens torn from their homes and forced into camps during the war.

The book was officially released in November.

“Incommunicado” begins on Dec. 7, 1941. The Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor, and America is heading to war. An American town’s most bullied girl takes a stand when community members turn on one of its own; a Japanese man.

Platt’s previous novels have won awards and acclaim, including her book “Hellie Jondoe,” which won the Bronze Award from ForeWord Reviews Young Adult Book of the Year, and the Moonbeam Award for Best Historical/Cultural Young Adult Fiction.

Another Platt novel, 1991’s “The Four Arrows Fe-As-Ko,” was honored with a 1997 film adaptation, “Promise the Moon.”

Platt and her work can be found online on Facebook, and at www.plattbooks.com.