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Author:

Uchida, Yoshiko.

Title:

The invisible thread : an autobiography / by Yoshiko Uchida.

Publisher:

J. Messner,

Copyright Date:

c1991

Description:

136 p. [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Uchida, Yoshiko--Juvenile literature.
Authors, American--20th century--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Japanese Americans--Social life and customs--Juvenile literature.
Uchida, Yoshiko.
Authors, American.
Japanese Americans--Social life and customs.
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.

Contents:

Never catching up -- Oh broom, get to work -- Being Japanese American -- Our Japanese Sunday -- Iku and Takashi -- Discovering the magic -- Tub under the stars -- Obah San and my cousins -- Foreigner in Japan -- Unhappy days -- Glory days -- Becoming a "nonalien" -- Prisoner of my country -- Prison camp teacher -- Topaz -- Dust storm -- School in the desert -- Concentration Camp Christmas -- Volunteers from behind barbed wire -- Back to the real world -- From mouse to tiger -- Good morning, boys and girls -- Epilogue -- Published works.

Summary:

Children's author, Yoshiko Uchida, describes growing up in Berkeley, California, as a Nisei, second generation Japanese American, and her family's internment in a Nevada concentration camp during World War II.

Series:

In my own words

ISBN:

9780671741648 (hard.)
0671741640 (hard.)
9780671741631 (lib.)
0671741632 (lib.)

LCCN:

91012398

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

W5PA943 -- Badger Public Library (Badger)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

DJPD353 -- Hampton Public Library (Hampton)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

XFPB697 -- Stanton Public Library (Stanton)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)