Michael O Tunnell
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In March 1943, twenty-seven children began third grade in a strange new environment: the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah. Together with their teacher, Miss Yamauchi, these uprooted young Americans began keeping a classroom diary, with a different child illustrating each day's entry. Their full-color diary entries paint a vivid picture of daily life in an internment camp: schoolwork, sports, pets, holidays, health--and the mixed feelings of citizens...
4) Mailing May
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
In 1914, because her family cannot afford a train ticket to her grandmother's town, May gets mailed and rides the mail car on the train to see her grandmother.
6) Wishing moon
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
After a fourteen-year-old orphan named Aminah comes to possess a magic lamp, the wishes granted her by the genie inside it allow her to alter her life by choosing prosperity, purpose, and romance.
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Briefly surveys the life of the early American portrait painter and describes an incident in which George Washington, visiting his natural history museum, was fooled by a lifelike painting of two of Peale's sons climbing a staircase.
8) The children of Topaz: the story of a Japanese-American internment camp : based on a classroom diary
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The diary of a third-grade class of Japanese-American children being held with their families in an internment camp during World War II.
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