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"body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div id=\"databox-Books\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n Title:Beneath the Wide Silk Sky;\nAuthor:Emily Inouye Huey;\nIllustrator:;\nOrigTitle:;\nCountry:;\nLanguage:;\nSeries:;\nGenre:Children's; Historical Fiction;\nPublisher:Scholastic Press;\nPubDate:2022;\nCurrentPublisher:;\nCurrentPubDate:;\nMediaType:;\nPages:336;\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:Beneath the Wide Silk Sky;\nCreators:Emily Inouye Huey;\nInterestLevel:Grades 7-8; Grades 9-12;\nReadingLevel:Grades 7-8; Grades 9-12;\nGuidedReadingLevel:;\nLexile:;\nTheme:Coming of age; Evils of racism; Loss of innocence;\nGenre:Children's; Historical Fiction;\nPoV:Told from perspective of Nisei 10th grader;\nRelatedEvents:;\nAvailability:Widely available;\nFreeWebVersion:No;\nPrimarySecondary:;\nHasTeachingAids:No;\nWarnings:;\nDenshoTopic:;\nGeography:Washington State;\nChronology:1941–42;\nFacility:;\n </p>\n </div>\n </div>\n <p>\n Young adult coming-of-age novel by Emily Inouye Huey set in fictional Linley Island, Washington, in the weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.\n </p>\n <p>\n Samantha \"Sam\" Sakamoto is a sixteen-year-old tenth grader who lives with her Issei father, older brother Charlie, and older sister Kiki. Each struggles with the recent death of Sam's mother and the continuing financial struggles plaguing the family farm. An aspiring photographer—something she keeps secret from her family—she bonds with Beau McClatchy, who dreams of becoming a trumpet player. But Beau's father, an ardent racist, owns the lease to the Sakamoto farm and is determined to gain possession of it. The attack on Pearl Harbor bring out racist thugs, internment of Issei community leaders, and further family drama, forcing Sam and her friends and siblings to grow up quickly. At the same time, hints of romance bloom as she becomes closer to the handsome neighbor boy Hiro, whom socialite Kiki is also eying. Hiro also lends Sam his interned father's fancy camera, inspiring her to document what is happening. The novel ends with the Linley Japanese American community leaving the island en route to a concentration camp. Linley seems to be based on\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Bainbridge_Island,_Washington\" title=\"Bainbridge Island, Washington\">\n Bainbridge Island, Washington\n </a>\n .\n </p>\n <p>\n Author Emily Inouye Huey's Nisei grandparents, Charles Ichiro Inouye and Bessie Murakami Inouye, met when while incarcerated at the\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Heart_Mountain\" title=\"Heart Mountain\">\n Heart Mountain\n </a>\n , Wyoming, concentration camp and married there in 1943. Her father, Dillon Inouye, was born in Heart Mountain. The family settled in Utah after leaving camp, and Dillon became a professor of Instructional Science at Brigham Young University. Huey has an MFA in creative writing from Lesley University and lives in Utah with her husband and four children.\n <i>\n Beneath the Wide Silk Sky\n </i>\n is her first novel.\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref1_1-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref1-1\">\n [1]\n </a>\n </sup>\n </p>\n <p>\n An \"Author's Note\" cites the work of\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Dorothea_Lange\" title=\"Dorothea Lange\">\n Dorothea Lange\n </a>\n and inmate photographers such as\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Toyo_Miyatake\" title=\"Toyo Miyatake\">\n Toyo Miyatake\n </a>\n and\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Dave_Tatsuno\" title=\"Dave Tatsuno\">\n Dave Tatsuno\n </a>\n as inspirations for Samantha, while also providing a brief summary of the mass forced removal of Japanese Americans during World War II. Though that summary—and the depiction of historical events in the book in general—is broadly accurate, it does include the oft repeated but erroneous claim that\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://densho.org/catalyst/common-myths-wwii-incarceration-half-children/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n half of the incarcerated Japanese Americans were children\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=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Weedflower%20(book)/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Weedflower\n </a>\n </i>\n by Cynthia Kadohata;\n <i>\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://resourceguide.densho.org/Dust%20of%20Eden%20(book)/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Dust of Eden\n </a>\n </i>\n by Mariko Nagai;\n <i>\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://resourceguide.densho.org/The%20Invisible%20Thread%20(book)/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n The Invisible Thread\n </a>\n '\n </i>\n by Yoshiko Uchida\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 Author website:\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"https://emilyhuey.com/novels/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n https://emilyhuey.com/novels/\n </a>\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 <i>\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781338789942\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Publishers Weekly'\n </a>\n ', Sept. 8, 2022. [\"Huey imbues Sam's narration with familiarity, creating an urgent immediacy that guides this insightful story….\"]\n </i>\n </p>\n </div>\n</div>",
"footnotes": "<div class=\"section\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n Footnotes\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <div class=\"reflist\" style=\"list-style-type: decimal;\">\n <div class=\"mw-references-wrap\">\n <ol class=\"references\">\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref1-1\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref1_1-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n Emily Inouye Huey, \"I'm a Pioneer: Finding Community After Prison Camp,\" LDSLiving, July 23, 2002,\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"https://www.ldsliving.com/im-a-pioneer-finding-community-after-prison-\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n https://www.ldsliving.com/im-a-pioneer-finding-community-after-prison-\n </a>\n ; \"Inouye, Dillon K. (Dillon Kazuyuki, 1943–2008,\" BYU Library Special Collections,\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"https://archives.lib.byu.edu/agents/people/15987\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n https://archives.lib.byu.edu/agents/people/15987\n </a>\n ; Julia Leef, \"Spotlight Series: Women's History Month—Emily Inouye Huey,\" Cambridge Common Writers,\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"https://www.cambridgecommonwriters.org/spotlight-series-womens-history-month-emily-inouye-huey/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n https://www.cambridgecommonwriters.org/spotlight-series-womens-history-month-emily-inouye-huey/\n </a>\n , all accessed on Aug. 17, 2023.\n </span>\n </li>\n </ol>\n </div>\n </div>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20240418160656\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.020 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.027 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 361/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 6593/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 1075/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 5/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 1228/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00% 18.608 1 -total\n 12.76% 2.374 1 Template:Reflist\n 12.47% 2.321 1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 11.39% 2.120 1 Template:Databox-Books\n 7.39% 1.375 1 Template:Published\n 7.36% 1.369 1 Template:AuthorByline\n 6.95% 1.294 1 Template:publish-rgonly\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:4544-0!canonical and timestamp 20240418160656 and revision id 35662\n -->\n </div>\n</div>"
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