Desert diary American children behind barbed wire

"In March 1943, twenty-seven children began third grade in a strange new environment: the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah. Together with their teacher, Miss Yamauchi, these uprooted young Americans began keeping a classroom diary, with a different child illustrating each day's entry. Their full-colo...

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Main Author: Tunnell, Michael O. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2020]
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Summary:"In March 1943, twenty-seven children began third grade in a strange new environment: the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah. Together with their teacher, Miss Yamauchi, these uprooted young Americans began keeping a classroom diary, with a different child illustrating each day's entry. Their full-color diary entries paint a vivid picture of daily life in an internment camp: schoolwork, sports, pets, holidays, health--and the mixed feelings of citizens who were loyal but distrusted"--
Physical Description:134 pages : photographs (some color) ; 26 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781580897891
1580897894
Author Notes:Michael O. Tunnell is a retired professor of children's literature and the author of several books for young readers, including Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot," an Orbis Pictus Honor book. While writing Desert Diary , he had the privilege of interviewing Mae Yanagi and many of her former classmates from Topaz Camp.