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Book Review of I am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment

I am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment
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After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, nearly 120,000 Americans were imprisoned by the federal government. Their crime? Being of Japanese ancestry.

This book focuses on the experiences of one high school student, Shi Nomura.

This is a story at once intimate and broadly historical, and draws a powerful portrait of wartime America and the injustice done to the Japanese Americans.

Ages 13 on up or so.