We are not free

Title
We are not free

Personal Author EPSB
Traci, Chee

Summary
For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.

Year Published
2020-2022

Physical Description
384 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Awards
2023 Young Reader’s Choice Award YRCA Intermediate nominee

Subject
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Fiction.
 
Japanese American families -- Fiction.
 
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- United States -- Fiction.
 
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans -- Fiction.
 
Concentration camps -- United States -- Fiction.
 
Prejudices -- Fiction.

Geographic Term
California -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

Genre
Historical fiction.

Summary
For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.

ISBN
9780358131434
 
9780358668107

Publisher
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
 
Boston : Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2022.
 
©2020


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
StratfordF CHE YRCA 2023Book30577000452194Due 12/6/24
StratfordF CHE YRCA 2023Book30577000452210Fiction