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We are not free

Author

Chee, Traci, author.

Title

We are not free / Traci Chee.

Format

Book

Published

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2020] ©2020

Description

384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

URL

Access for [Reader's guide]

Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

Target audience

Ages 12 and up. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Grades 7-9. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Awards

National Book Award finalist, 2020 ; Printz honor book, 2021 ; Walter honor book, 2021.

Subject headings

Japanese American families--Juvenile fiction. Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945--Juvenile fiction. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--United States--Juvenile fiction. World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans--Juvenile fiction. Internment camps--United States--Juvenile fiction. Racism--United States--20th century--Juvenile fiction. Prejudices--Juvenile fiction. California--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.

Genre heading

Young adult fiction. Young adult works. Historical fiction. Social problem fiction. Fiction. History. Juvenile works. Historical fiction. Historical fiction. Social problem fiction.

ISBN

9780358131434 (hardcover) 035813143X (hardcover) 9780358330004 (electronic book) 9780358343561