TY - BOOK AU - Chee,Traci TI - We are not free SN - 9780358131434 AV - PZ7.1.C497 We 2020 U1 - 813.6 23 PY - 2020///] CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt KW - Japanese Americans KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 KW - Japanese American families KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Concentration camps KW - United States KW - Prejudices KW - Fiction KW - California KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft KW - Children's and Teenage: General Fiction KW - ukslc KW - Children's / Teenage fiction: General fiction KW - thema KW - Children's / Teenage fiction: Family & home stories KW - Children's / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction KW - Children's / Teenage general interest: People & places KW - Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Family issues KW - Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: Racism & multiculturalism KW - United States of America, USA KW - Relating to Asian American people N1 - Ages 12 and up; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Grades 7-9; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt N2 -

A beautiful, painful, and necessary work of historical fiction. Veera Hiranandani, Newbery Honor winning author of The Night Diary

; 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 ER -