Follett Content Book Detail: Fish for Jimmy : Inspired By One Family's Experience in a Japanese American Internment Camp by Yamasaki, Katie

Fish for Jimmy : Inspired By One Family's Experience in a Japanese American Internment Camp

Author: Yamasaki, Katie

Follett Number: 1431NW4
Audience: Lower Elementary
Publisher: Holiday House, 2019
Format: 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 x 27 cm
Dewey: -E-
Classifications: Fiction; Easy

Subjects:
Brothers Fiction
Japanese Americans Evacuation and Relocation, 1942-1945 Fiction
Picture Books
When brothers Taro and Jimmy and their mother are forced to move from their home in California to a Japanese internment camp in the wake of the 1941 Pearl Harbor bombing, Taro daringly escapes the camp to find fresh fish for his grieving brother.

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