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1) Sylvia & Aki
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
It's 1942, after Japan has attacked Pearl Harbor during WWII. Now all Japanese Americans living on the West Coast of the United States are being forcibly moved into internment camps. The US government has decided that anyone of Japanese descent might be dangerous. Miss Breed gives her young patrons penny postcards, saying, "Write to me." And they do. Back and forth over three long years, Miss Breed and many children correspond. Meanwhile, Miss...
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