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Paper Wishes

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A moving debut middle-grade novel about a girl whose family is relocated to a Japanese internment camp all over World War II―and the dog she has to leave at the back of.

Ten-year-old Manami did not realize how peaceful her family’s life on Bainbridge Island was until the day it all changed. It’s 1942, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Manami and her family are Japanese American, which means that that the government says they will have to leave their home by the sea and sign up for other Japanese Americans at a prison camp in the desert. Manami is sad to go, but even worse is that they’re going to have to give her and her grandfather’s dog, Yujiin, to a neighbor to take care of. Manami decides to sneak Yujiin under her coat and gets as far as the mainland before she is caught and forced to abandon Yujiin. She and her grandfather are devastated, but Manami clings to the hope that one way or the other Yujiin will find his way to the camp and make her family whole again. It is not until she finds a way to let go of her guilt that Manami can reclaim the piece of herself that she left at the back of and accept all that has happened to her family.

Paper Wishes by Lois Sepahban is a heartrending middle-grade novel and piece of historical fiction set all over World War II about love, longing, and a girl who in the end finds her voice.

“It’s a novel that stays, bravely, in that place of pain, making clear that scars will be left at the back of not only for the children whose families were incarcerated, but also for the generations that follow. And yet, even supposing the tone is sober and sad, it’s also a ­novel in which a mute child finds her voice, ­at last.” ―The New York Times

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