num_pages: 136
description: Growing up in California, Yoshi knew her family looked different from their neighbors. Still, she felt like an American. But everything changed when America went to war against Japan. Along with all the other Japanese-Americans on the West Coast, Yoshi's family were rounded up and imprisoned in a crowded. badly built camp in the desert because they "looked like the enemy." Yoshiko Uchida grew up to be an award-winning author. This memoir of her childhood gives a personal account of a shameful episode in American history.
language: English
title: The Invisible Thread: An Autobiography
titlecomplete: The Invisible Thread: An Autobiography
genres: Biography, History, Autobiography, World War II, Historical, Childrens, War, Womens, Nonfiction, Memoir
ratings_count: 481
publisher: Beech Tree Books