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The Lucky Baseball: My Story in a Japanese-American Internment Camp

Harry Yakamoto grew up in Seven Cedars, California playing baseball, going to school, and working at his familys restaurant. As a young Japanese American, he faced discrimination daily. But when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, his life would change forever. Forced to move to a relocation center in the desert of California, Harry and his family have to start a new life behind barbed wire and guarded watchtowers. Follow Harry Yakamoto in this World War II story as he learns to live through difficult conditions in a Japanese-American internment camp.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 160
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780766036550
  • Characters
  • Harry Yakamoto
  • Settings
  • California
  • Genres
  • baseball
  • Release date
  • 2009