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Name: Love in the Library
Author: Tokuda-Hall, Maggie
ISBN: [978-1-53620-430-8,1-53620-430-7]

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Love in the Library

Author: Tokuda-Hall, Maggie

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Follett Number: 1628FR3
Audience: Lower Elementary
Publisher: Candlewick Press, 2022
Format: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 28 cm
ISBN-13: 978-1-53620-430-8
ISBN-10: 1-53620-430-7
Dewey: -E-
Classifications: Fiction; Easy

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Biographical Fiction

Historical Fiction

Internment Camps Fiction

Japanese Americans Fiction

Japanese Americans Forced Removal and Internment, 1942-1945 Fiction

Libraries Fiction

Love Fiction

Picture Books

World War, 1939-1945 Japanese Americans Fiction

"After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tama is sent to live in a War Relocation Center in the desert . . .Trying not to think of the life she once had, she works in the camp's tiny library . . . And she isn't the only one. George waits each morning by the door, his arms piled with books checked out the day before. As their friendship grows, Tama wonders: Can anyone possibly read so much? Is she the reason George comes to the library every day?"--Provided by publisher.

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"A powerful must-read."--Booklist (starred review) Set in an incarceration camp where the United States cruelly detained Japanese Americans during WWII and based on true events, this moving love story finds hope in heartbreak. To fall in love is already a gift. But to fall in love in a place like Minidoka, a place built to make people feel like they weren't human--that was miraculous. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tama is sent to live in a War Relocation Center in the desert. All Japanese Americans from the West Coast--elderly people, children, babies--now live in prison camps like Minidoka. To be who she is has become a crime, it seems, and Tama doesn't know when or if she will ever leave. Trying not to think of the life she once had, she works in the camp's tiny library, taking solace in pages bursting with color and light, love and fairness. And she isn't the only one. George waits each morning by the door, his arms piled with books checked out the day before. As their friendship grows, Tama wonders: Can anyone possibly read so much? Is she the reason George comes to the library every day? Maggie Tokuda-Hall's beautifully illustrated, elegant love story features a photo of the real Tama and George--the author's grandparents--along with an afterword and other back matter for readers to learn more about a time in our history that continues to resonate.

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