evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945

Thirteen-year-old Rennie Stroud finds her hometown of Tallgrass, Colorado, changed forever when the government builds a Japanese internment camp in the rural area and the prisoners become the target of the townspeople who believe Japanese-Americans are the enemy.

Recounts the story of the incarceration of mainland Japanese Americans and Alaskan Aleuts during World War II, summarizing the events surrounding the wartime relocation and detention activities and the policies that led to them.

Discusses the experiences of Japanese Americans in relocation centers during World War II, and explores the military, political, economic, racial, and personal motives of public figures concerning the evacuation.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, thirteen-year-old Tetsu and his family are sent to the Gila River Relocation Center in Arizona where a fellow prisoner starts a baseball team, but when Tetsu's sister becomes ill and he feels responsible, he stops playing.

Examines the history and impact of the Korematsu v. the United States Supreme Court case, when Korematsu, his family, and the Japanese American internment 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.