Dear Miss Breed : true stories of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II and a librarian who made a difference Cover Image

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Dear Miss Breed : true stories of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II and a librarian who made a difference / by Joanne Oppenheim ; foreword by Elizabeth Kikuchi Yamada ; afterword by Snowden Becker.

Summary:

Provides the story of life in a Japanese internment camp during World War II through the correspondence of the children in the camp to their librarian, Miss Clara Breed, who worked on their behalf to show the injustice of their imprisonment.

Record details

ISBN: 0439569923 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780439569927 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: 287 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Scholastic, 2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 282) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Young people in this book -- Introduction: How I met the remarkable Miss Breed -- About the camps -- "We were filled with a terrible fear" -- A second date of infamy -- Welcome to Santa Japanita! -- "Seabiscuit's signature" -- The winners are... -- "Greetings from far-off Poston" -- "Real American children" -- Bitter winter -- "Poston seems like home to me" -- First graduates, class of '43 -- "This place will be...a ghost town!" -- "Courage belongs to no one race" -- "On the threshold of freedom" -- "No price tag for freedom" -- History in a box.