We Are Not Free
(Hardcover)
| Author(s): |
Chee, Traci |
| Page Length: |
400 pgs |
| Copyright: |
2020 |
| Weight: |
1.13 lbs. |
| Item Code: |
312290 |
| ISBN: |
9780358131434 |
Told through multiple perspectives, this moving historical narrative details the injustices faced by Japanese Americans during World War II. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the US government forced over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry into internment camps. We Are Not Free follows fourteen teenagers whose lives are irrevocably changed during this time. Uprooted from their San Francisco neighborhood, they are incarcerated simply because they are Nisei, or second-generation Japanese American citizens. Despite their differences, the teens must band together and protect each other from the hostilities of the world within and beyond the camp’s barbed wire fence.