Violeta Encarnación

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Barbed Wire Between Us

Barbed Wire Between Us
Illustrated by: Violeta Encarnación
Age Level: 6-9

Barbed Wire Between Us is a powerful reverso poem that tells two deeply resonant stories across time. It begins with a Japanese American girl sent to an internment camp in Oklahoma during World War II. Read in reverse, it reveals the journey of a Latina girl detained in the very same camp decades later, during the U.S. policy of migrant family separation.