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Near the start of World War II, ten-year-old Manami, her parents, and her grandfather are evacuated from their home and sent to Manzanar, an internment camp in the desert for Japanese-American citizens, where Manami grieves the home and dog she was forced to leave behind.
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"Legendary photographers Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams all photographed the Japanese American incarceration, but with different approaches--and different results. This nonfiction picture book for middle grade readers examines the Japanese-American incarceration-and the complexity of documenting it-through the work of these three photographers."--
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A graphic novel/prose hybrid which tells the story of a young Japanese American man who leaves his family in the Manzanar internment camp to fight in the European theater during World War II, and of his ten-year-old sister who, frustrated over her brother risking his life for the government that imprisoned them, decides to stop talking until he returns.