| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9781890771911 | | Publisher: Heyday Books | | Publish Date: 2/1/2005 | | Buy.com Sku: 39967260 | | Item#: BYWEWF | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8H x 5.5L x 0.75T | | Age Range: 11 to UP |
|
|
|
| | | | "It was only the first week in December but already Yuki could feel the tingling excitement of Christmas in the air..." (from the first line) Like any 11-year-old, Yuki Sakane is looking forward to Christmas when her peaceful world is suddenly shattered by the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Uprooted from her home and shipped with thousands of West Coast Japanese Americans to a desert concentration camp called Topaz, Yuki and her family face new hardships daily.
Annotation:
Eleven-year-old Yuki Sakane and her family are living in California when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Suddenly, it seems as if all people of Japanese descent are seen as suspicious. Soon Yuki's father is taken away by the FBI, and Yuki, her mother, and her brother are sent to an internment camp--first at the horse stalls of the Tanforan Racetrack and then at a desert camp called Topaz. Life in the camp is scary and difficult, and Yuki wonders whether she and her family--and the thousands of other Japanese-Americans held in internment camps--will ever get their freedom back.
| Author Bio| Yoshiko Uchida | | In 1942, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, college student Yoshiko Uchida, her family, and 120,000 other Japanese Americans were forced, by the United States government to leave their homes and live in internment camps. Uchida has recounted this difficult time in her memoir THE INVISIBLE THREAD. After a 1952 visit to Japan, Uchida published her first book, a collection of Japanese folk tales entitled THE DANCING KETTLE AND OTHER JAPANESE FOLK TALES. In addition to her folklore collections, Uchida has also written historical fiction about Japanese-Americans as a means of sharing Japanese culture with all children. |
| |
|
|
__USERID__
http://www.buy.com/prod/journey-to-topaz/q/loc/106/39967260.html
|
