The Japanese American internment during World War II is the subject of National Book Award finalist Marrin’s historical nonfiction book for adolescents.
Sandler expertly crafts a narrative that manages to explain the horror and incomprehensibility of locking up American citizens in prison camps simply because of their ethnic ancestry.
With a white mother and a Japanese father, Koji Miyamoto quickly realizes that his home in San Francisco is no longer a welcoming one after Pearl Harbor is attacked.
In the early 1940's, Clara Breed was the children's librarian at the San Diego Public Library. But she was also friend to dozens of Japanese American children and teens when war broke out in December of 1941.
Learn how early childhood providers can support immigrant children and families and promote healthy social-emotional and physical development for young children facing uncertainty.