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Desert diary : Japanese American children behind barbed wire /

"In March 1943, twenty-seven children began third grade in a strange new environment: the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah. Together with their teacher, Miss Yamauchi, these uprooted young Americans began keeping a classroom diary, with a different child illustrating each day's entry. Their...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tunnell, Michael O. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2020]
Subjects:
Central Utah Relocation Center > Juvenile literature.
Central Utah Relocation Center.
Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 > Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945 > Japanese Americans > Personal narratives > Juvenile literature.
Japanese American children > Diaries > Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945 > Children > United States > Juvenile literature.
Japanese American children > Diaries.
Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 > Japanese Americans > Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945 > Children > United States.
Children.
Japanese Americans.
United States.
1939-1945
Informational works.
Illustrated works.
Diaries.
Juvenile works.
Personal narratives.
Description
Summary:"In March 1943, twenty-seven children began third grade in a strange new environment: the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah. Together with their teacher, Miss Yamauchi, these uprooted young Americans began keeping a classroom diary, with a different child illustrating each day's entry. Their full-color diary entries paint a vivid picture of daily life in an internment camp: schoolwork, sports, pets, holidays, health--and the mixed feelings of citizens who were loyal but distrusted"--
Physical Description:ix, 134 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781580897891
1580897894