pickA based-on-true-events picture book about the author's grandparents meeting at an interment camp. A sweet story set in an awful location, the author focuses on hope, language, and love, leaving the horrors as vague concepts.
#SchoolSpirit #Library a challenged book about two young people who meet and fall in love in a Japanese internment camp. It‘s a wonderful book .
1. Resilience and pure determination
2. Katie in “Kira-Kira“ by Cynthia Kadohata
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Her‘s my #bookspin & #doublespin. I love the title of the double spin book! Thanks for organizing @TheAromaofBooks
pick2nd book in Japantown mystery series. Following WWII, Aki and her family have moved back to Los Angeles from Chicago, where they had to move in order to leave the internment camp they had been sent to. They find LA has changed in their absence
I find the settings, characters, and history fascinating but the writing is just ok.
so-so
I found this to be okay, like the last one. It did keep my interest, but I didn't find see a lot of character development. There was some, but with the second book, I expected there to be more. I did learn some of things the Japanese Americans went through during WWII. I mainly just knew about the camps. Learning new things is always a plus to me when reading a book. That fact bumped my rating up to a 3⭐.
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so-soClark and Division tells the story of a Japanese family in America after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and sent to camps then onto Chicago. A sister is trying to find out what happened to her older sister that got to move to Chicago before they did. It was an okay mystery. Not great but still good. I will read the next book in the series, bc I do want to know a few things.
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pickThe topics of Japanese Americanness and diaspora and imperialism and aging and ancestors and family stories and death and legacy, these are are perhaps the central questions of my own life. It was meaningful to me to see someone else grapple with these same questions, even if perhaps the way he engages with them is somewhat different from how I do. Or perhaps it was meaningful because of that difference. But it was interesting, to say the least.
