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Book SynopsisWinner of the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book MedalWinner of the BolognaRagazzi Award for PhotographyNamed a Best Book of the Year by Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, and others. ? This arresting work brings history to vivid life. Kirkus Reviews, starred review? [An] exquisitely crafted, fiercely provocative work of nonfiction. BCCB, starred reviewIngeniously designed. The New York TimesThis important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration captured by three photographersDorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adamsalong with firsthand accounts of this grave moment in history. Three months after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the incarceration of all Japanese and Japanese Americans living on the West Coast of the United States. Families, teachers, farm workersall were ordered to leave behind their homes, their businesses, a
Trade Review★ “This arresting work brings history to vivid life.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review ★ “[An] exquisitely crafted, fiercely provocative work of nonfiction.” —BCCB, starred review “Ingeniously designed.” —The New York Times
