num_pages: 192
description: A moving debut novel about a girl whose family is relocated to a Japanese internment camp during World War IIand the dog she has to leave behind.Ten-year-old Manami did not realize how peaceful her family's life on Bainbridge Island was until the day it all changed. It's 1942 after the attack on Pearl Harbor and Manami and her family are Japanese American which means that the government says they must leave their home by the sea and join other Japanese Americans at a prison camp in the desert. Manami is sad to go but even worse is that they are going to have to give her dog Yujiin to a neighbor to take care of. Manami decides to sneak Yujiin under her coat but she is caught and forced to abandon him. She is devastated but clings to the hope that somehow Yujiin will find his way to the camp and make her family whole again. It isn't until she finds a way to let go of her guilt that Manami can accept all that has happened to her family.
language: English
title: Paper Wishes
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)