What book has been chosen for the 2021 summer read?????
We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN THE ONLY HOME YOU'VE EVER KNOW IS TAKEN FROM YOU?
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, fourteen Japanese-American teens find their lives irrevocably changed.
Registration. Curfew. Eviction. Incarceration. As World War II roars on around them, these teens must ask themselves what it means to be free Americans when their own country has imprisoned them.
14 TEENS who have grown up together in Japantown, San Francisco.
14 TEENS who form a community and a family, as interconnected as they are conflicted.
14 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, they must rally together as racism and injustice threaten to pull them apart.
* NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * PRINTZ HONOR BOOK * WALTER HONOR BOOK *
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, fourteen Japanese-American teens find their lives irrevocably changed.
Registration. Curfew. Eviction. Incarceration. As World War II roars on around them, these teens must ask themselves what it means to be free Americans when their own country has imprisoned them.
14 TEENS who have grown up together in Japantown, San Francisco.
14 TEENS who form a community and a family, as interconnected as they are conflicted.
14 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, they must rally together as racism and injustice threaten to pull them apart.
* NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * PRINTZ HONOR BOOK * WALTER HONOR BOOK *
About the Author - Traci Chee
Traci Chee is a New York Times bestselling author. Her latest novel, We Are Not Free, was a National Book Award finalist, Printz Honor, and Water Honor that also received four starred reviews. Her YA fantasy trilogy -- The Reader, The Speaker, and The Storyteller -- was a New York Times bestseller and shortlisted for multiple awards and accolades. Kirkus has starred all of her titles, a rare accomplishment she shares of such authors as Suzanne Collins, Philip Pullman and Lauren Oliver. Twitter: @tracichee, Instagram and Facebook: @TraciCheeAuthor, http://www.tracichee.com.
(From the Publisher)
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