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Author Oppenheim, Joanne.

Title Dear Miss Breed : true stories of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II and a librarian who made a difference / by Joanne Oppenheim ; foreward by Elizabeth Kikuchi Yamada ; afterword by Snowden Becker.

Publication Info. New York : Scholastic, 2006.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Children's Department  J 940.53 OPPENHEIM    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Teen  TEEN 940.5317 OPPENHEIM    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Children's Department  J 940.53 OPP    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 940.53 OPPENHEIM    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Children's Department  J940.53 OPPENHEIM    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Children's Department  J UNITED STATES 940.5317 OPP    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Children's Department  J 973.919 OPP    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Children's Department  J940.5317 OP5D    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Children's Department  JUV. 940.5317 O62D    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 287 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 282) and index.
Summary Provides the story of life in a Japanese internment camp during World War II through the correspondence of the children in the camp to their librarian, Miss Clara Breed, who worked on their behalf to show the injustice of their imprisonment.
Contents Young people in this book -- Introduction: How I met the remarkable Miss Breed -- About the camps -- "We were filled with a terrible fear" -- A second date of infamy -- Welcome to Santa Japanita! -- "Seabiscuit's signature" -- The winners are... -- "Greetings from far-off Poston" -- "Real American children" -- Bitter winter -- "Poston seems like home to me" -- First graduates, class of '43 -- "This place will be...a ghost town!" -- "Courage belongs to no one race" -- "On the threshold of freedom" -- "No price tag for freedom" -- History in a box.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.4 16.0 104049.
Subject Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans -- Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American -- Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Japanese American children -- Correspondence -- Juvenile literature.
Breed, Clara E. (Clara Estelle), 1906-1994 -- Correspondence -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN 0439569923 alkaline paper
9780439569927 alkaline paper
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