![]() I prefer Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki, which is for slightly older children. It is informative and accessible (and includes a helpful author's note), but it lacks significant incident. ![]() ![]() The Bracelet is a simple text that introduces young students to the internment of Japanese-Americans that occurred during World War II. When Emi loses the bracelet, she discovers that it is not necessary to have objects to remember important people and places they live in one's mind. camp in Montana because he worked for a Japanese company. Emi's father has already been removed to a P.O.W. War is raging across the sea, and because Japanese-Americans look like the enemy, they are the enemy. Emi, a young Japanese girl in second grade, receives a gold bracelet from her friend just before she, her mother, and her sister leave their home for an internment camp. ![]()
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