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Reader reviewed by Bookworm9

I read this book in the eighth grade, and I think the reason that I have bad memories about it was that my teacher just dragged it out for way too long, and also didn't ask us to make any historical/ cultural connections with it. It's really not a bad book, a first-person non-fiction account of a girl's experience at a detainee camp for Japanese-Americans during WWII. This is a part of American history that really hasn't gotten a lot of coverage until recently, so it can be a real eye-opener to read. It's a very reflective book, and I remember the girl wrote a lot about her father and other family members. It was pretty interesting.