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Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki
Shorty and his family, along with thousands of Japanese Americans, are sent to an internment camp after the attack on Pearl Harbor . Fighting the heat and dust of the desert, Shorty and his father decide to build a baseball diamond and form a league in order to boost the spirits of the internees. Shorty quickly learns that he is playing not only to win, but to gain dignity and self-respect as well. $14.95 HC ($12.70 AARW members) |
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Children of Asian America Compiled on behalf of the Asian American Coalition
This collection of Asian American children's short stories, poems and photographs captures the diversity of the Asian American community and celebrates twelve years of an Asian American community coalition in Chicago . $18.95 HC ($16.10 AARW members) |
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Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say
Through compelling reminiscences of his grandfather's life in America and Japan , Allen Say gives us a poignant account of his family's unique cross-cultural experience. He warmly conveys his own love for his two countries, and the strong and constant desire to be in both places at once. When in one country, he always misses the other. His grandfather, he tells us, would understand. $16.95 HC ($14.40 AARW members) |
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The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida
Based on the author's personal experiences in the concentration camp during World War II. Emi, who is given a bracelet as a goodbye present by her best friend, vows to never take it off. The bracelet is lost while she is helping to clean the horse stall her family is now supposed to live in. Her sadness is overcome when Emi realizes that she does not need the bracelet to remember her friend; she lives in her heart. $14.95 HC ($12.70 AARW members) |
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The Whispering Cloth: A Refugee's Story by Pegi Deitz Shea
Mai, a young Hmong girl in a Thai refugee camp, with the help of her grandmother, finds comfort in the life she imagines with her family as she creates her own pa'ndau story cloth. $7.95 PB ($6.75 AARW members) |
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