We are not free /
Chee, Traci,
We are not free / Traci Chee. - 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (page 381).
For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps. For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare. They have been attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate. Now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps. -- adapted from run-on sentence provided
Ages 12 and up. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Grades 7-9. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
9780358131434 035813143X
2019029407
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--United States--Fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.
Concentration camps--Fiction.
Japanese American families--Fiction.
Japanese Americans--Fiction.
California--History--20th century--Fiction.
California--Fiction.
United States--Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Historical fiction.
Social problem fiction.
We are not free / Traci Chee. - 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (page 381).
For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps. For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare. They have been attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate. Now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps. -- adapted from run-on sentence provided
Ages 12 and up. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Grades 7-9. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
9780358131434 035813143X
2019029407
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--United States--Fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.
Concentration camps--Fiction.
Japanese American families--Fiction.
Japanese Americans--Fiction.
California--History--20th century--Fiction.
California--Fiction.
United States--Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Historical fiction.
Social problem fiction.