Journal Entry 1 by zw78 from Orem, Utah USA on Wednesday, April 28, 2004

This book is for people who like reading about other people thru hardships. 

Journal Entry 2 by zw78 from Orem, Utah USA on Thursday, July 08, 2004

This book is know traveling in a bookbox 

Journal Entry 3 by Aramena from Moore, Oklahoma USA on Friday, July 16, 2004

Tara's book box came home with this in it! It's too big for her to read, but when Cassey comes home from camp this weekend I'll see if she wants it. 

Journal Entry 4 by Aramena from Moore, Oklahoma USA on Friday, April 04, 2008

I just finished reading this book myself and really enjoyed it. I've read a lot of stuff about and set during WW2, mostly about the Holocaust, but had never read anything about the Japanese interment camps. What a horrible thing for our country to have done to it's own citizens.

I'm now sending this to debnance for her school. 

Journal Entry 5 by debnance from Alvin, Texas USA on Monday, April 21, 2008

I would have sworn that nothing had been written about the Japanese internment camps until recent years, but this book defies my belief. The copyright is 1945. Imagine. That is during or shortly after the end of the war! Amazing.

I look forward to reading this book and comparing it to Weedflower, a book of last year that dealt with the internment of the Japanese-Americans. 

Journal Entry 6 by debnance from Alvin, Texas USA on Saturday, January 24, 2009

A Newbery Honor book with a copyright date of 1945. Who would have thought it? Means was out writing insightful books for children over fifty years ago, books recognized by ALA as excellent. Yet I don’t remember ever seeing this book before now, not in my library, not on any good book list. Why?

Here’s the plot: A family of Japanese Americans, who attend church and participate in their community, are sent off to detainment camps in the wake of Pearl Harbor. Means is on spot with her portrayals of the teenage son and daughter who react to their detainment with two different feelings and two different actions.

This is a book I had to double check several times; was it really written in 1945? And it makes me want to know more about Means. How did she come to know the culture of this story so well?

I'm saving this for release at TLA in Houston in April. 

Journal Entry 7 by debnance at George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas USA on Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Released 3 yrs ago (4/2/2009 UTC) at George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas USA

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Journal Entry 8 by sdose from Coleman, Texas USA on Wednesday, April 08, 2009

I pick the book up at a table at the Texas Library Convention in Houston Texas, 4-1-09. The book is a little worn but still readable.

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Journal Entry 9 by AnonymousFinder on Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Sending the book on to another friend

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