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Author Oppenheim, Joanne.

Title Dear Miss Breed : true stories of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II and a librarian who made a difference / by Joanne Oppenheim ; foreword by Elizabeth Kikuchi Yamada ; afterword by Snowden Becker.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Scholastic Nonfiction, 2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PHS Non-Fiction  940.53 Oppenheim    ---  Available
 Pittsburg 1st Fl Young Adult Non-Fiction  YA 940.53 Opp    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 287 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Indexed In: Bklst 01/01/2006
Kirkus 12/15/2005
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 282) and index.
Summary Provides the story of life in a Japanese internment camp during World War II through the correspondence of the children in the camp to their librarian, Miss Clara Breed, who worked on their behalf to show the injustice of their imprisonment.
Subject Japanese Americans -- Relocation.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
Japanese American children -- Correspondence.
Breed, Clara E. -- Correspondence.
ISBN 0439569923

 
    
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