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Sylvia & Aki
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At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their O...
At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.
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- Creator
- Winifred Conkling
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Berkeley : Tricycle Press, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- vii, 151 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781582463971, 1582463972, 9781582463377, 1582463379, 9781582463988, 1582463980
- OCLC
- ocn651153669
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-149).
- Pt. 1. California and Arizona 1941 -- pt. 2. California and Arizona 1944-1945 -- Epilogue. California 1955
Subjects
- Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.) -- Fiction.
Children's Subject Heading
- Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.) -- Juvenile fiction.
- Race relations -- Fiction.
Children's Subject Heading
- Segregation in education -- Fiction.
Children's Subject Heading
- Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Fiction.
Children's Subject Heading
- Mexican Americans -- Fiction.
Children's Subject Heading
- Farm life -- California -- Fiction.
Children's Subject Heading
- Race relations -- Juvenile fiction.
- Segregation in education -- Juvenile fiction.
- Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Juvenile fiction.
- Mexican Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
- Farm life -- California -- Juvenile fiction.
- Orange County (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Children's Subject Heading
- Orange County (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction.