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"body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div class=\"floatright\">\n </div>\n <div id=\"databox-Books\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n Title:A Place to Belong;\nAuthor:Cynthia Kadohata;\nIllustrator:Julia Kuo;\nOrigTitle:;\nCountry:;\nLanguage:;\nSeries:;\nGenre:;\nPublisher:Atheneum;\nPubDate:2019;\nCurrentPublisher:;\nCurrentPubDate:;\nMediaType:;\nPages:405;\nAwards:;\nISBN:;\nWorldCatLink:;\n </p>\n </div>\n <div class=\"rgonly\">\n <!--\"rgdatabox-CoreDisplay\" removed-->\n <div id=\"rgdatabox-Core\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n RGMediaType:books;\nTitle:A Place to Belong;\nCreators:;\nInterestLevel:Grades 7-8; Grades 9-12;\nReadingLevel:Grades 7-8;\nGuidedReadingLevel:;\nLexile:;\nTheme:Coming of age; Facing darkness; Family – blessing or curse; Growing up – pain or pleasure; Loss of innocence; Will to survive;\nGenre:Children's; Historical Fiction;\nPoV:Told from perspective of young Nisei girl;\nRelatedEvents:;\nAvailability:Widely available;\nFreeWebVersion:Yes;\nPrimarySecondary:;\nHasTeachingAids:Yes;\nWarnings:;\nDenshoTopic:Japan-Post-World War II [165];Resistance and dissidence-Expatriation/repatriation/deportation [107];\nGeography:Japan;\nChronology:1940s;\nFacility:Jerome [6] - Denson, Arkansas; Tule Lake [10] - Newell, California;\n </p>\n </div>\n </div>\n <p>\n Young adult novel by Cynthia Kadohata that tells the story of a Japanese American family's experience in postwar Japan from the perspective of an adolescent female protagonist.\n </p>\n <p>\n <i>\n A Place to Belong\n </i>\n centers on the story Tachibana family told through the eyes of twelve-year-old Hanako in the year after the end of World War II. Before the war, they had run a successful restaurant in Gardena, California, but when they are caught up in the mass forced removal and incarceration of all West Coast Japanese Americans, they lose everything and end up in an American concentration camp. There, Hanako's father gives a conditional answer on the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Loyalty_questionnaire\" title=\"Loyalty questionnaire\">\n loyalty questionnaire\n </a>\n , which is enough to get the family sent to\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Tule_Lake\" title=\"Tule Lake\">\n Tule Lake\n </a>\n . He is branded a troublemaker, is separately interned, and decides that the family will go to Japan where they will live with his parents who are peasant farmers outside of Hiroshima. The novel begins with their voyage to Japan and follows their difficult life there. While Hanako and her five-year-old brother Akira face hunger, desperate orphan children, and the difficulties of learning a new language and culture, they are buoyed by their grandparents' love and their parents' devotion to them. But the family has to face a difficult decision as to what the best path for their future will be.\n </p>\n <p>\n While the novel takes place entirely after the war, it includes many references to life in the concentration camps. The family goes first to an unspecified\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Assembly_centers\" title=\"Assembly centers\">\n assembly center\n </a>\n , then to\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Jerome\" title=\"Jerome\">\n Jerome\n </a>\n , prior to Tule Lake. The family is later helped by lawyer\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Wayne_Collins\" title=\"Wayne Collins\">\n Wayne Collins\n </a>\n , to whom the book is dedicated.\n </p>\n <p>\n Author Cynthia Kadohata has written two prior books with adolescent Japanese American female protagonists there were set in the postwar period,\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/The Floating World (book)/\" title=\"The Floating World (book)\">\n The Floating World\n </a>\n </i>\n (1989) and the young adult novel\n <i>\n Kira Kira\n </i>\n (2004). Her 2006 young adult novel\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Weedflower (book)/\" title=\"Weedflower (book)\">\n Weedflower\n </a>\n </i>\n was mostly set in\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Poston_(Colorado_River)\" title=\"Poston (Colorado River)\">\n Poston\n </a>\n .\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n <b>\n Authored by\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Brian_Niiya\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n Brian Niiya\n </a>\n , Densho\n </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n <p>\n Might also like\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese-American Internment Camps (book)/\" title=\"Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese-American Internment Camps (book)\">\n Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese-American Internment Camps, Young Reader's Edition\n </a>\n </i>\n by Mary Matsuda Gruenewald;\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/The Invisible Thread (book)/\" title=\"The Invisible Thread (book)\">\n The Invisible Thread\n </a>\n </i>\n by Yoshiko Uchida;\n <i>\n The War Outside\n </i>\n by Monica Hesse\n </p>\n</div>\n",
"moreinfo": "<div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n For More Information\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p>\n Publisher's website:\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Place-to-Belong/Cynthia-Kadohata/9781481446648\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Place-to-Belong/Cynthia-Kadohata/9781481446648\n </a>\n .\n </p>\n <p>\n Curriculum guide:\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"https://www.simonandschuster.net/books/A-Place-to-Belong/Cynthia-Kadohata/9781481446648#reading-group-guide\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n https://www.simonandschuster.net/books/A-Place-to-Belong/Cynthia-Kadohata/9781481446648#reading-group-guide\n </a>\n .\n </p>\n </div>\n</div>",
"reviews": "<div class=\"section\" id=\"Reviews\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Reviews\">\n Reviews\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p>\n Cooper, Ilene.\n <i>\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://www.booklistonline.com/A-Place-to-Belong-/pid=9716256\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Booklist\n </a>\n </i>\n , May 15, 2019. [\"...a story that is both beautifully crafted yet utterly true to a child’s innermost thoughts and feelings...\"]\n </p>\n <p>\n <i>\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/cynthia-kadohata/a-place-to-belong-kadohata/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Kirkus Reviews\n </a>\n </i>\n , Apr. 1, 2019. [\" Superb characterization and an evocative sense of place elevate this story that is at once specific to the experiences of Japanese-American expatriates and yet echoes those of many others.\"]\n </p>\n <p>\n <i>\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4814-4664-8\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Publishers Weekly\n </a>\n </i>\n [\"The push-pull between humanity’s best and worst and between acceptance and resistance are at the heart of this powerful and joyful work.\"]\n </p>\n <p>\n Salva, Darla.\n <i>\n School Library Journal\n </i>\n 65.4 (May 2019), 93. [\"In her trademark style, Kadohata unfurls the complex web of the girl's inner thoughts in a concise yet cutting third-person narrative.\"]\n </p>\n </div>\n</div>",
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"findatia": "<div class=\"section\" id=\"Find_in_the_Digital_Library_of_Japanese_American_Incarceration\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Find_in_the_Digital_Library_of_Japanese_American_Incarceration\">\n Find in the Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p>\n <b>\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://archive.org/details/placetobelong00kado\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n A Place to Belong\n </a>\n </b>\n </p>\n <p style=\"font-size:8pt;line-height:1.5;color: #aaa;\">\n This item has been made freely available in the\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://archive.org/details/digital-library-of-japanese-american-incarceration\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration\n </a>\n , a collaborative project with\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://archive.org/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Internet Archive\n </a>\n .\n </p>\n </div>\n</div>"
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