num_pages: 157
description: The feelings and experiences of a young boy forced to live in a Japanese internment camp during World War II is presented in this diary-style format for middle readers. 90,000 first printing.
language: English
title: The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559 Mirror Lake Internment Camp, California, 1942
titlecomplete: The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559 Mirror Lake Internment Camp, California, 1942 (My Name Is America)
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, Juvenile, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Childrens, Historical Fiction, United States, World War II
ratings_count: 826
places: California
series: My Name Is America
publisher: Scholastic Inc.