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Author Marrin, Albert, author.

Title Uprooted : the Japanese American experience during World War II / Albert Marrin.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PHS Non-Fiction  940.53 Marrin    ---  Available
Edition First edition.
Description 246 pages : illustrations, maps, photographs ; 24 cm
text rdacontent
unmediated rdamedia
volume rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The Pacific Age -- Dreams of fortune -- The path to the Dark Side -- Sorrowful days -- Yankee Samurai -- The wheels of justice -- Remembering the past.
Indexed In: Junior Library Guild
Summary Just seventy-five years ago, the American government did something that most would consider unthinkable today: it rounded up over 100,000 of its own citizens based on nothing more than their ancestry and, suspicious of their loyalty, kept them in concentration camps for the better part of four years.
Audience Ages 15 & up.
Grades 10 & up.
Study Program AR MG RL 8.2 PTS 11 185290.
Subject Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans -- Juvenile literature.
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans.
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans.
United States -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- History -- 1933-1945.
United States -- History -- 1933-1945.
ISBN 9780553509373 (library binding)
9780553509366 (hardcover)

 
    
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