![]() * "Yardley's hushed, realistic paintings add to the poignancy of Uchida's narrative, and help to underscore the absurdity and injustice suffered by Japanese American families such as Emi's."- Publishers Weekly, starred review "How will I ever remember my best friend?" she asks herself. But on the first day of camp, when Emi discovers she has lost her heart bracelet, she can't help wanting to cry. ![]() ![]() For her mother's sake, Emi doesn't say how unhappy she is. The United States and Japan are at war. Seven-year-old Emi doesn't want to leave her friends, her school, her house yet as her mother tells her, they have no choice, because they are Japanese-American. ![]() Yoshiko Uchida draws on her own childhood as a Japanese-American during World War II in an internment camp to tell the poignant story of a young girl's discovery of the power of memory.Įmi and her family are being sent to a place called an internment camp, where all Japanese-Americans must go. ![]()
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