num_pages: 144
description: San Francisco 1941: America has just declared war on Japan.With a white mother and a Japanese father Koji Miyamoto quickly learns that his home is no longer a welcoming one. Streetcars won't stop for Koji and his classmates accuse him of being an enemy spy. When a letter arrives from the government notifying him that he must go to a relocation center for Japanese Americans he and his mother are forced to leave everything they know behind. Once there Koji soon discovers that being half white in the internment camp is just as difficult as being half Japanese in San Francisco.Koji's story based on true events is brought to life by Matt Faulkner's cinematic illustrations which reveal Koji struggling to find his place in a tumultuous worldone where he is a prisoner of war in his own country.
language: English
title: Gaijin: American Prisoner of War
publisher: Little, Brown Ink