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A Fence Away From Freedom: Japanese Americans and World War II


By Ellen Levine

Reading Level: Middle School, High School, Adult
Genre: Non Fiction
Awards: Caldecott Medal
Publisher: G.P. Putman's Sons 1995

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Japanese Americans reflect on their years spent in internment camps as children or young adults. They discuss the process of being forced from their homes, and their ability to make the prisons more livable despite oppressive conditions.

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