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Desert diary

Japanese American kids behind barbed wire
2020
"In March 1943, twenty-seven children began third grade in a strange new environment: the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah. Together with their teacher, Miss Yamauchi, these uprooted young Americans began keeping a classroom diary, with a different child illustrating each day's entry. Their full-color diary entries paint a vivid picture of daily life in an internment camp: schoolwork, sports, pets, holidays, health--and the mixed feelings of citizens who were loyal but distrusted"--Provided by publisher.

Children in Japanese American confinement camps

Text and photographs present the true accounts of children who were forced to live in Japanese American confinement camps.

Anne Frank

"[Presents the story of Anne Frank's] extraordinary life and . . . the diary that would change the world"--Back cover.

Homesick: My Own Story

1984
"Jean Fritz recalls her childhood in China, her special relationship with her beloved AMAH, her adventures with her best friend, and shares the feelings of alienation that came of being an American attending a British school in China.".

Last witnesses

an oral history of the children of World War II
Reveals a view of World War II from the eyes of the children during that time.
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What to do about Alice?

how Alice Roosevelt broke the rules, charmed the world, and drove her father Teddy crazy!
An illustrated biography of Alice Roosevelt Longworth that focuses on her experiences while her father was president of the United States.
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Once upon a war

the memoir of Gertrud Schakat Tammen
Gertrud Schakat Tammen, 10 years old in 1941, recounts her memories of World War II as a German national living near Russia when the fighting between Germany and Russia began.
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Children of war

voices of Iraqi refugees
Twenty Iraqi children discuss how the War on Terror has affected their lives.
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The children of the king

Sent to the English countryside for safety during World War II, Cecily and Jeremy find themselves in the company of a young refugee named May, with whom they encounter two mysterious boys in the ruins of a nearby castle.

Escape from Saigon

how a Vietnam War orphan became an American boy
Chronicles the experiences of an orphaned Amerasian boy from his birth and early childhood in Saigon through his departure from Vietnam in the 1975 Operation Babylift and his subsequent life as the adopted son of an American family in Ohio.

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