We are not free /
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TextPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2020]Description: pages cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780358131434Subject(s): Japanese Americans -- Juvenile fiction. -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 | Japanese American families -- Juvenile fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Juvenile fiction. -- Concentration camps -- United States | World War, 1939-1945 -- Juvenile fiction. -- Japanese Americans | Concentration camps -- Juvenile fiction. -- United States | Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction | Japanese Americans -- Fiction. -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 | World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction. -- United States | Prejudices -- Fiction | California -- Juvenile fiction. -- History -- 20th century | California -- Fiction. -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Children's and Teenage: General Fiction | Children's / Teenage fiction: General fiction | Children's / Teenage fiction: Family & home stories | Children's / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction | Children's / Teenage general interest: People & places | Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Family issues | Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Racism & multiculturalism | United States of America, USA | Relating to Asian American people DDC classification: 813.6 LOC classification: PZ7.1.C497 | We 2020Summary: <DIV><P>A beautiful, painful, and necessary work of historical fiction. Veera Hiranandani, Newbery Honor winning author of <I>The Night Diary</I></P></DIV> NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST PRINTZ HONOR BOOK WALTER HONOR BOOK From New York Times best-selling and acclaimed author Traci Chee comes We Are Not Free, the collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mass U.S. incarcerations of World War II. Fourteen teens who have grown up together in Japantown, San Francisco. Fourteen teens who form a community and a family, as interconnected as they are conflicted. Fourteen teens whose lives are turned upside down when over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry are removed from their homes and forced into desolate incarceration camps. In a world that seems determined to hate them, these young Nisei must rally together as racism and injustice threaten to pull them apart.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| Books | Main Library Young Adult Fiction | YA C515w 2020 | Checked out | 10/05/2024 | 25190 |
<DIV><P>A beautiful, painful, and necessary work of historical fiction. Veera Hiranandani, Newbery Honor winning author of <I>The Night Diary</I></P></DIV> NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST PRINTZ HONOR BOOK WALTER HONOR BOOK From New York Times best-selling and acclaimed author Traci Chee comes We Are Not Free, the collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mass U.S. incarcerations of World War II. Fourteen teens who have grown up together in Japantown, San Francisco. Fourteen teens who form a community and a family, as interconnected as they are conflicted. Fourteen teens whose lives are turned upside down when over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry are removed from their homes and forced into desolate incarceration camps. In a world that seems determined to hate them, these young Nisei must rally together as racism and injustice threaten to pull them apart.
Ages 12 and up. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Grades 7-9. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.