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    612-822-4611

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Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII

Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII

Moss, Marissa
Shimizu, Yuko

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ISBN10: 1419720589
ISBN13: 9781419720581
Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers
Published: Mar 8 2016
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.20 Width: 8.80 Depth: 10.80
Language: English
Moss is a skilled author of historical narrative nonfiction for young readers; her tale is both well researched and well told. But it's the visually stunning, sensitive illustrations by the hugely talented Shimizu that make the book a standout. --New York Times Book Review

Author Marissa Moss and illustrator Yuko Shimizu's Barbed Wire Baseball is a picture book that movingly tells a true story set in a Japanese American internment camp in World War II.

During World War II, Japanese American baseball player Kenichi Zeni Zenimura was sent to an internment camp in the Arizona desert. But even behind barbed wire, Zeni refused to give up the game he loved.

With grit, determination, and a deep belief in the power of baseball, he carved a field from the dust and built a team that brought hope and dignity to thousands.

As a young boy, Kenichi Zenimura (Zeni) wanted to be a baseball player, even though everyone told him he was too small. He grew up to become a successful athlete, playing with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.

But when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, Zeni and his family were sent to one of several internment camps established in the U.S. for people of Japanese ancestry.

Zeni brought the game of baseball to the camp, along with a sense of hope, and became known as the Father of Japanese American Baseball.

A California Book Award Gold Medal Winner

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