We are Not Free
Books | Juvenile Fiction / Family / General
4.2
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Traci Chee
"All around me, my friends are talking, joking, laughing. Outside is the camp, the barbed wire, the guard towers, the city, the country that hates us. We are not free. But we are not alone." From New York Times best-selling and acclaimed author Traci Chee comes We Are Not Free, the collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mass U.S. incarcerations of World War II. Fourteen teens who have grown up together in Japantown, San Francisco. Fourteen teens who form a community and a family, as interconnected as they are conflicted. Fourteen teens whose lives are turned upside down when over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry are removed from their homes and forced into desolate incarceration camps. In a world that seems determined to hate them, these young Nisei must rally together as racism and injustice threaten to pull them apart.
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More Details:
Author
Traci Chee
Pages
384
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published Date
2020
ISBN
035813143X 9780358131434
Ratings
Google: 3.5
Community ReviewsSee all
"Wow, this is a powerful book. It's considered historical fiction but many true historical things are in this book. This book shows what some Japanese immigrants and Japanese American citizens went through in the U.S. after Pearl Harbor. There are a lot of narrarators, and I really liked seeing the perspectives of all the characters. I highly recommend "
Skye Edelson-Bennett
"Very good, the ending almost had me crying "
Jay
"This book is full of beautiful and horrific details. Take your time, this is not a book to rush."
Wren
"Once again a book that suffered due to my short attention span. However I can tell that if I read it at a normal pace I would have connected to and liked the characters better. I however can't justify a perfect rating due to this, I apologize. I think this book is important and that people should read it to get a better picture of this horrible thing America did but doesn't like to talk about. I mean this happened to the authors grandparents so it wasn't even that long ago that this happened."
Where's Waldo
"I really liked this book and if you want to know more about the encampment of Japanese Americans or just looking for a good historical fiction book to read this one is for you. However I can’t give this book a perfect rating due to the fact (for me at least some people like this) you see many perspectives. Due to the different perspectives I had a hard time connecting with the character’s and I would have enjoyed it more if it was just the same few character’s. It did make you see different perspectives but I had questions and I would get connected to a character never to know what happened to them. Besides that great book!"
Harperus
"Chee presents the Japanese incarceration through the eyes of 14 teens, each with a chapter written in its own unique style.<br/><br/>"
Ricki Marking-Camuto
"SO good."
not vincent van gogh
"This is a pretty good book to see what the camps were like back then. Each character had a lot of depth and own motives. Really noice book."
Stacy Yorace
"It was so empowering, could not put it down, as an Asian-American it really moved me"
M G
Mia Gallinelli
"I cried a lot"
C Timmons
