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    612-822-4611

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Love in the Library

Love in the Library

Tokuda-Hall, Maggie
Imamura, Yas

Hardcover

General Juvenile FictionHistory

Publisher Price: $18.99

ISBN10: 1536204307
ISBN13: 9781536204308
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: Feb 15 2022
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.50 Width: 10.90 Depth: 9.70
Language: English
A powerful must-read.--Booklist (starred review)

Set in an incarceration camp where the United States cruelly detained Japanese Americans during WWII and based on true events, this moving love story finds hope in heartbreak.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tama is sent to live in a War Relocation Center in the desert. All Japanese Americans from the West Coast--elderly people, children, babies--now live in prison camps like Minidoka. To be who she is has become a crime, it seems, and Tama doesn't know when or if she will ever leave. Trying not to think of the life she once had, she works in the camp's tiny library, taking solace in pages bursting with color and light, love and fairness. And she isn't the only one. George waits each morning by the door, his arms piled with books checked out the day before. As their friendship grows, Tama wonders: Can anyone possibly read so much? Is she the reason George comes to the library every day? Maggie Tokuda-Hall's beautifully illustrated, elegant love story features a photo of the real Tama and George--the author's grandparents--along with an afterword and other back matter for readers to learn more about a time in our history that continues to resonate.

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