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University of Washington Press (1982), Edition: Reprint, 160 pages
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After the attack on Pearl Harbor, everything changed for Yoshiko Uchida. Desert Exile is her autobiographical account of life before and during World War II. The book does more than relate the day-to-day experience of living in stalls at the Tanforan Racetrack, the assembly center just south of San Francisco, and in the Topaz, Utah, internment camp. It tells the story of the courage and strength displayed by those who were interned.
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Desert Exile is an autobiography of Yoshiko Uchida’s life growing up as a Japanese-American during World War II. It includes pictures of her family and her life in the internment camp. However, it is not just her life that she is telling but the lives of her parents and grandparents; she also
This book is appropriate for students in third grade and up because it is an easy read with real-life pictures to look at. It also contains a lot of vocabulary that students are familiar with.
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mentions the hardship that they had to go through. Uchida gives a review of American war policy during World War II from the Japanese-American point of view and a sociological study of human beings imprisoned under primitive conditions. She uses her family to set up the stage for these events. This book is appropriate for students in third grade and up because it is an easy read with real-life pictures to look at. It also contains a lot of vocabulary that students are familiar with.
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