Paper wishes /
Sepahban, Lois,
Paper wishes / Lois Sepahban. - First edition. - 181 pages ; 22 cm
"Margaret Ferguson Books."
Includes bibliographical references.
This fictionalized account of 10-year-old Manami’s forced relocation from Bainbridge Island to Manzanar camp with her family in 1942 includes a list of resources for learning more about this difficult chapter of our region’s history. (Miller Library Staff) Ten-year-old Manami does not realize how peaceful her life on Bainbridge Island, Washington, is until the day it all changes. It's 1942, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and Manami and her family are forced by the government to leave their home by the sea and join other Japanese Americans at a prison camp in the California desert. Manami is sad to go, but, even worse, her family must give her dog, Yujiin, to a neighbor to take care of. Manami decides to sneak Yujiin under her coat and gets as far as the mainland before she is caught and forced to abandon him. Devastated by the loss of her beloved pet and by her family's sudden move, Manami finds refuge in drawing pictures of Yujiin and writing promises to take good care of him if only he will return to her. Each morning she hopes he will come back and she sends her promise drawings into the air. Will her family ever be whole again? -- from dust jacket.
Recommended for primary school (age 6-12) and up.
2017 Notable Children's Trade Book/Social Studies.
0374302162 9780374302160
40027176132
2015005786
Manzanar War Relocation Center--Juvenile fiction.
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Japanese American Exclusion Order (Executive Order 9066)--Bainbridge Island (Wash.)--1942-1944--Juvenile fiction.
Selective mutism--Juvenile fiction.
Family life--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--United States--Juvenile fiction.
PZ7.1.S462 / Pap 2016
Paper wishes / Lois Sepahban. - First edition. - 181 pages ; 22 cm
"Margaret Ferguson Books."
Includes bibliographical references.
This fictionalized account of 10-year-old Manami’s forced relocation from Bainbridge Island to Manzanar camp with her family in 1942 includes a list of resources for learning more about this difficult chapter of our region’s history. (Miller Library Staff) Ten-year-old Manami does not realize how peaceful her life on Bainbridge Island, Washington, is until the day it all changes. It's 1942, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and Manami and her family are forced by the government to leave their home by the sea and join other Japanese Americans at a prison camp in the California desert. Manami is sad to go, but, even worse, her family must give her dog, Yujiin, to a neighbor to take care of. Manami decides to sneak Yujiin under her coat and gets as far as the mainland before she is caught and forced to abandon him. Devastated by the loss of her beloved pet and by her family's sudden move, Manami finds refuge in drawing pictures of Yujiin and writing promises to take good care of him if only he will return to her. Each morning she hopes he will come back and she sends her promise drawings into the air. Will her family ever be whole again? -- from dust jacket.
Recommended for primary school (age 6-12) and up.
2017 Notable Children's Trade Book/Social Studies.
0374302162 9780374302160
40027176132
2015005786
Manzanar War Relocation Center--Juvenile fiction.
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Juvenile fiction.
Japanese American Exclusion Order (Executive Order 9066)--Bainbridge Island (Wash.)--1942-1944--Juvenile fiction.
Selective mutism--Juvenile fiction.
Family life--Juvenile fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--United States--Juvenile fiction.
PZ7.1.S462 / Pap 2016