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Name: We Are Not Free
Author: Chee, Traci
ISBN: [978-0-358-13143-4,0-358-13143-X]

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We Are Not Free

Author: Chee, Traci

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Follett Number: 1541DY8
Audience: Young Adult
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020
Format: 384 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
ISBN-13: 978-0-358-13143-4
ISBN-10: 0-358-13143-X
LCCN: 2019-029407
Dewey: -Fic-
Classifications: Fiction

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California History 20th Century Fiction

Family Life Fiction

Historical Fiction

Japanese Americans Evacuation and Relocation, 1942-1945 Fiction

Japanese Americans Fiction

Prejudices Fiction

World War, 1939-1945 United States Fiction

For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, his two brothers, his 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.

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"All around me, my friends are talking, joking, laughing. Outside is the camp, the barbed wire, the guard towers, the city, the country that hates us. We are not free. But we are not alone." From New York Times best-selling and acclaimed author Traci Chee comes We Are Not Free, the collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mass U.S. incarcerations of World War II. Fourteen teens who have grown up together in Japantown, San Francisco. Fourteen teens who form a community and a family, as interconnected as they are conflicted. Fourteen teens whose lives are turned upside down when over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry are removed from their homes and forced into desolate incarceration camps. In a world that seems determined to hate them, these young Nisei must rally together as racism and injustice threaten to pull them apart.

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