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The Bracelet

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Yoshiko Uchida draws on her own childhood as a Japanese-American all over World War II in an internment camp to tell the poignant story of a young girl’s discovery of the power of memory.

Emi and her circle of relatives are being sent to a place referred to as an internment camp, where all Japanese-Americans should go. The year is 1942. America and Japan are at war. Seven-year-old Emi doesn’t wish to leave her friends, her school, her house; yet as her mother tells her, they’ve no choice, because they’re Japanese-American. For her mother’s sake, Emi doesn’t say how unhappy she is. But on the first day of camp, when Emi discovers she has lost her heart bracelet, she can’t help wanting to cry. “How will I ever needless to say my best friend?” she asks herself.  


* “Yardley’s hushed, realistic paintings add to the poignancy of Uchida’s narrative, and help to underscore the absurdity and injustice suffered by Japanese American families such as Emi’s.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Will find a able readership and prove indispensable for introducing this dark episode in American history”—School Library Journal 


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