Description
Harry Yakamoto grew up in Seven Cedars, California playing baseball, going to school, and working at his family's restaurant. As a young Japanese American, he faced discrimination daily, but when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, his life would change forever. Forced to move to a relocation center in the desert of California, Harry and his family have to start a new life behind barbed wire and guarded watchtowers. Readers follow Harry Yakamoto in this World War II story as he learns to live through difficult conditions in a Japanese-American internment camp.
Title Details
Author: |
Lieurance, Suzanne |
Publisher: |
Enslow Publishing |
Language: |
English |
Copyright: |
2010 |
Number of Pages: |
160 |
Dewey: |
FIC |
Dewey Range: |
FIC |
Binding Type: |
Library Binding |
Interest Age: |
10 |
Accelerated Reader Interest Level: |
Middle Grade |
Accelerated Reader Reading Level: |
4.5 |
Accelerated Reader Point Value: |
5 |
Lexile Level: |
690 |
Lexile Range: |
Developing Reader (500 - 799) |
