We Are Not Free
by Traci Chee
Age band: 13+
Looky Rating System: Violence 3/5, Love & Romance 2/5, Mental Health 3/5, Language 2/5, Substance Use 1/5, Fear / Horror 3/5, Fantasy / Supernatural 0/5, LGBTQ+ Representation 3/5.
Description
* NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * PRINTZ HONOR BOOK * WALTER HONOR BOOK * ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR LITERATURE HONOR BOOK * 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.