Journey To Topaz A Story Of The Japanese American Evacuation Deals on Yoshiko Uchida

Journey To Topaz: A Story Of The Japanese-American Evacuation

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Editorial Reviews

After the Pearl Harbor attack an eleven-year-old Japanese-American girl and her family are forced to go to an aliens camp in Utah.

Customer Reviews

Gently introduces children to a difficult period in our history

Reviewed by Marynna L. Kerce, 2009-01-21

Well written, informative historical fiction by an author who lived this experience. This is the introductory work in a series which describes and personalizes the experiences of Americans of Japanese ethnicity who were confined in concentration camps during World War II.

Recommended for elementary / adolescent students. Some material may be disturbing for younger readers: a kind, sympathetic character is killed by a trigger-happy security guard toward the end of the book. Few details are given -- the man "crumples," and it is explained later that, indeed, he died. Despite the emotionally challenging nature of this material, the author's careful, sensitive treatment provides a gentle introduction to a difficult topic.

Overall, a beautiful book, the first in a lovely series.

Bailey R`s Review

Reviewed by Bailey R., 2007-08-08

Journey to Topaz was an interesting book. It was sad and very touching. The main character was a sweet girl who was determined to help make things right for her loved ones. She and her family faced painful separations from their friends and even each other. It is a great book that shows you what Japanese familys had to go through during World War II.

Journey to Topaz

Reviewed by Anonymous, 2007-03-21

Journey to topaz is a story that takes place during world war II. The main characters are a japanese-american family that is sent to an internment camp.
They are put through many trials testing their will.

I think this book is a wonderful story because it shows the reader what life was like at that time from the view of a person put into the camp.

A girl named Yuki is sent to an internment camp with her family, but her father is sent to a different camp. They were sent to this camp after the Pearl harbor bombing. In the camp, Yuki meets Emi, a girl that becomes her friend. When the family is released, Ken, Yuki's brother, wants to join the army and fight for the U.S.A.

Great!

Reviewed by Christy P. Bordieri, 2007-01-16

Books arrived in a timely manner (even though it was during the holidays!) and are in perfect condition.

Journey to Topaz

Reviewed by Anonymous, 2006-12-03

Journey to Topaz was a great book. I think that this book was a very gripping and touching story. It taught me a lot of lessons, i.e. don't always complain that I don't have everything that I want because there are people in the world that aren't as fortunate as me. I've also learned that people should be treated equally, even if we don't have the same skin colour or the same hight, we are still the same on the inside. Now I know how hard it is to let someone, that you love, go. I can imagine how Yuki felt when her dad left her and when she had to let of Pepper. I also like the way the author added in Japanese words to make the book more interesting. This book showed that not only the Jews were effected in World War II, but the Japanese were just as scared and threatened as the Jews. I would recommend this book to everyone that thinks that Japanese people are spiolt and get whatever they want. I would also recommend this book to people that think their parents aren't getting them everything they want. All I want to say is that this was an excellent book and it taught many teachings.