TY - BOOK AU - Chee,Traci TI - We are not free SN - 9780358131434 PY - 2020///] CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt KW - Japanese Americans KW - Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 KW - Fiction KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - United States KW - Prejudices KW - Concentration camps KW - Japanese American families KW - California KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Young adult fiction KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft KW - Social problem fiction N1 - Includes bibliographical references (page 381); Ages 12 and up; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Grades 7-9; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt N2 - 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 ER -