![]() Agent: Kathleen Rushall, Marsal Lyon Literary Agency. 7 Inches (D) Weight. Engrossing and heartrending historical fiction. Paper Wishes - by Lois Sepahban (Paperback) 8.99When purchased online In Stock Add to cart About this item Specifications Dimensions (Overall):7.6 Inches (H) x 5.1 Inches (W) x. Mother is preparing tea.” In depicting how Manami’s college-age brother, Ron, must choose between internment or joining the army, Sepahban captures the contradictions of this bleak period. In one quietly powerful scene, Manami acknowledges her depressed grandfather’s return to family meals: “A ceremony to honor a special occasion. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. Army the authority to forcibly relocate Japanese Americans from the exclusion zone. Paper Wishes is written by Lois Sepahban and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). Wait for Yujiin.” Sepahban, the author of several works of children’s nonfiction, eloquently conveys the devastating effects of internment and a resilience undergirded by cultural traditions. Paper Wishes Classroom Guide Historical Context Executive Order 9066: Signed on February 19, 1942, by President Franklin Roosevelt, it gave the U.S. Manami’s narration occasionally takes the form of short, poetic bursts: Ten-year-old Manami and her family are relocated from Bainbridge Island, Wash., to a California internment camp after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in a wrenching early scene, a soldier forcibly separates Manami from Yujiin, her beloved dog, after which she becomes mute, expressing her longing only in drawings. ![]() ![]() First-person, present-tense narration gives voice to a voiceless child amid the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. ![]()
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