The Lucky Baseball My Story in a Japanese-American Internment Camp |
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| Author:
| Lieurance, Suzanne |
| Series title: | Historical Fiction Adventures Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7660-3311-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2010 |
| Publisher: | Enslow Publishing, LLC
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $31.93 |
Book Description:
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Harry Yakamoto grew up in Seven Cedars, California playing baseball, going to school, and working at his family's restaurant. As a young Japanese American, he faced discrimination daily, but when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, his life would change forever. Forced to move to a relocation center in the desert of California, Harry and his family have to start a new life behind barbed wire and guarded watchtowers. Readers follow Harry Yakamoto in this World War II story as he...
More DescriptionHarry Yakamoto grew up in Seven Cedars, California playing baseball, going to school, and working at his family's restaurant. As a young Japanese American, he faced discrimination daily, but when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, his life would change forever. Forced to move to a relocation center in the desert of California, Harry and his family have to start a new life behind barbed wire and guarded watchtowers. Readers follow Harry Yakamoto in this World War II story as he learns to live through difficult conditions in a Japanese-American internment camp.