Uchida, Yoshiko

The author tells the story of her Japanese-American family's imprisonment in a U.S. internment camp during World War II.

After the Pearl Harbor attack an eleven-year-old Japanese-American girl and her family are forced to go to an aliens camp in Utah.

A story of what happened to one Japanese American family during this wartime tragedy, then called "the evacuation".

It's 1935 and the city of Oakland, California is struggling with the problems causeed by the Great Depression . Because ther is not enough work to go around,some people are resentful of immigrants. Eleven-year-old Rinko wants to be treated like everyone else, but there are some people in her neighborhood, like Wilbur Starr, who reidicule her family and make her feel different because she is a Japanese American.

California is struggling with the problems caused by the great depression. Some people are resentful of immigrants.