Title: Sylvia and Aki
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.
Subjects: Race relations, Segregation in education, Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945, Fiction, Mexican Americans, Japanese Americans, Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.), Farm life, History, Juvenile fiction
Places: California, Orange County (Calif.)
Time periods: 20th century