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Author Conkling, Winifred.

Title Sylvia & Aki / Winifred Conkling.

Imprint Berleley : Tricycle Press, c2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Meadowlark Fiction  F CON    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description vii, 151 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-149).
Indexed In: Junior Library Guild
Summary When Aki's family is sent to a Japanese internment camp at the beginning of World War II, Sylvia's family leases their farm. But Sylvia also faces discrimination, as a Mexican American. Includes black-and-white photographs of the real Sylvia and Aki.
Audience 8-10.
3-5.
Study Program Accelerated Reader ATOS RL 5.2 4.0 144851 LARK
Awards A Junior Library Guild selection
Subject Race relations -- Fiction.
Segregation in education -- Fiction.
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Fiction.
Mexican Amreicans -- Fiction.
Farm life -- California -- Fiction.
Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.) -- Fiction.
Orange County (Calif) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Added Title Sylvia and Aki
ISBN 9781582463971\(gibraltar\library\binding) : $13.95
9781582463377 (hardcover)

 
    
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