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Title: Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki, Dom Lee ISBN: 1-880000-19-9 Publisher: Lee & Low Books Pub. Date: March, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.64 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Learning to face adversity even after a war's end
Comment: Ken's father spent WWII in the Minidoka Japanese-American Internment Camp in Idaho. Ken, the author was raised in Seattle. Shorty is stuck in the barracks without friends, surrounded by noise and boredom. No one has anything to do. His dad sees verves fraying and has an idea, Build a baseball diamond and organize games. The men make the diamond, the women improvise the uniforms. Games are scheduled under the gaze of the guard towers. Shorty scores a big hit under nervous angry pressure. After the war, he continues to be taunted, but learns self respect under the pressure of adversity. The benefit from this book, is that there is no whitewash. It is honest, and yes, he was called Shorty, cuz life is like that.
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing
Comment: This book is an amazing resource for teaching students about the inequalities that took place during WWII. It is a reality check to all of those who stood by and watched their fellow friends and neighbors as they were forced to leave their homes and be placed in internment camps in Hawaii. This is not just a gut check. This book served to illustrate how the simple things in life can mean everything. This book receives my highest rating and is first rate with teachers everywhere.
Rating: 5
Summary: Kid's Eye View of Japanese Camps, Being an Outsider
Comment: I read this to my "just-turned 8" year old son who really identified with the kid as "odd man out." The story both communicates what it was like to be in a Japanese internment camp from a kid's perspective, and communicates how it feels to be an outsider (a feeling I'm sure every child has felt some time) by talking about baseball and being the "littlest" and physically different kid. A nice, serious story with a smile at the end.
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Title: The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida, Joanna Yardley ISBN: 069811390X Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Faithful Elephants : A True Story of Animals, People, and War by Yukio Tsuchiya, Ted Lewin ISBN: 0395861373 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 30 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story by Ken Mochizuki, Dom Lee ISBN: 1880000490 Publisher: Lee & Low Books Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Wall by Ronald Himler, Eve Bunting ISBN: 0395629772 Publisher: Clarion Books Pub. Date: 24 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: So Far from the Sea by Chris K. Soentpiet, Eve Bunting ISBN: 0395720958 Publisher: Clarion Books Pub. Date: 20 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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