Sylvia and Aki
By: Winifred Conkling
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Tricycle Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9781582463971; 9781582463377
Subjects: Race relations; Segregation in education; Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Fiction; Mexican Americans; Japanese Americans; Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.); Farm life; History
Description: At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-149).