Bibliograph

We are not free, Traci Chee

Type

Label

We are not free, Traci Chee

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

860L, Lexile

resource.interestAgeLevel

Ages 12 and up, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

resource.interestGradeLevel

Grades 7-9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Literary Form

novels

Main title

We are not free

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1192495617

Responsibility statement

Traci Chee

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, UG, 5.5, 14, 14, 509938

Summary

"All around me, my friends are talking, joking, laughing. Outside is the camp, the barbed wire, the guard towers, the city, the country that hates us. We are not free. But we are not alone." From New York Times best-selling and acclaimed author Traci Chee comes We Are Not Free, the collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mass U.S. incarcerations of World War II. Fourteen teens who have grown up together in Japantown, San Francisco. Fourteen teens who form a community and a family, as interconnected as they are conflicted. Fourteen 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, these young Nisei must rally together as racism and injustice threaten to pull them apart

Target audience

adolescent

Classification