Powerful and heartbreaking. I cannot wait to teach an excerpt of this to my students this fall. Everyone needs to read it. ( )

This is the biography of a Japanese-American author who grew up in Berkeley in the 1920s-30s and then went to internment camps in the 1940s. She describes her family, friends, and life in loving detail; I especially enjoyed the parts about (and pictures of) her early writing and dogs. Her reflections as a person between cultures are poignant, as are her day-to-day experiences while in camps.

Uchida was a children's author and this is categorized as a children's biography, but it's appropriate for all ages. ( )

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