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Paper wishes / Lois Sepahban.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2016Edition: First editionDescription: 181 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0374302162
  • 9780374302160
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PZ7.1.S462 Pap 2016
Other classification:
  • JUV016150 | JUV039250
Online resources: Awards:
  • 2017 Notable Children's Trade Book/Social Studies.
Summary: 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)Summary: 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.
List(s) this item appears in: Garden of Cultural Diversity for Youth | Japanese American Exclusion EO 9066 resources
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Lending Books Elisabeth C. Miller Library Youth Collection SB451 .S47 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39352800169682
Total holds: 0

"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.

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