“When the soldiers see you, they are scared, too,” Grandfather says. “When I see the soldiers, I am scared,” I say. It isn’t until she finds a way to let go of her guilt that Manami can accept all that has happened to her family. She is devastated but clings to the hope that somehow Yujiin will find his way to the camp and make her family whole again. Manami decides to sneak Yujiin under her coat, but she is caught and forced to abandon him. Manami is sad to go, but even worse is that they are going to have to give her dog, Yujiin, to a neighbor to take care of. It’s 1942, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Manami and her family are Japanese American, which means that the government says they must leave their home by the sea and join other Japanese Americans at a prison camp in the desert. Ten-year-old Manami did not realize how peaceful her family’s life on Bainbridge Island was until the day it all changed. ChaptersĪ moving debut novel about a girl whose family is relocated to a Japanese internment camp during World War II – and the dog she has to leave behind.Source & Format Received an advance reader copy from the author for review (Thanks, Lois!), Paperbackįind It On Goodreads Published January 5th, 2016 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
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