![]() I was struck by how normal these fourteen teens really were. I've read many books about Japanese Internment but none from the point-of-view exclusively of teenagers. Review: I put this YA novel onto my reading list because it won a Printz Honor this year for being one of the best YA books of the year. We follow these teens as they lose everything their family owned, were transported to the camps, loss of their freedom, and then being asked to sign a loyalty pledge to the country that had just imprisoned them. ![]() Summary: 14 teenagers and friends who live with their families in Japantown in San Francisco in 1942 tell their stories of what life was like for them when the Exclusion Order comes down from the government to place all people of Japanese descent living on the West Coast into Internment Camps for the duration of the war. ![]()
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