We are not free
by
 
Chee, Traci, author.

Title
We are not free

Author
Chee, Traci, author.

Summary
From New York Times best-selling and acclaimed author Traci Chee comes We Are Not Free, the collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mass U.S. incarcerations of World War II. Fourteen teens who have grown up together in Japantown, San Francisco. Fourteen teens who form a community and a family, as interconnected as they are conflicted. Fourteen teens whose lives are turned upside down when over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry are removed from their homes and forced into desolate incarceration camps. In a world that seems determined to hate them, these young Nisei must rally together as racism and injustice threaten to pull them apart.

Audience
Ages 12 and up. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
 
Grades 7-9. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Physical Description
384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Genre
Historical fiction.
 
Social problem fiction.

Subject Term
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Fiction.
 
Japanese American families -- Fiction.
 
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Fiction.
 
Concentration camps -- Fiction.
 
Prejudices -- Fiction.
 
Racism -- Fiction.

Geographic Term
California -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,

Publication Date
2020

ISBN
9780358131434

Publication Information
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2020]

Award Note
Michael L. Printz Award book, 2021
 
National Book Award, Young People's Literature, Finalist, 2020
 
Young Readers Choice Award nominee, 2023.

Call Number
YA CHEE


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