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Instead, Mitsi's two best friends Mags and Judy snub her and Mitsi is hurt and confused. Uneasy with the undercurrent of tension, nasty notes, and racial slurs coming from her classmates, Mitsi finds comfort in Dash's companionship. She wonders how humans can treat her so cruelly just for being Japanese, when Dash remains as loyal to her as ever.\n </p>\n <p>\n While walking home alone one day, Mitsi is chased and bullied by middle school boys who chant \"Remember Pearl Harbor!\" over and over. She falls and the boys kick her books and new artist sketch pad into the mud. A stranger, Mrs. Bowker, fends the boys off with a broom and helps Mitsi gather her things. In gratitude, Mitsi draws Mrs. Bowker a picture of her garden and they become fast friends. Mitsi shares her painful secret that her best friends avoid her at school. Mrs. Bowker shares that she used to live in Montana and that she has always felt guilty for not defending her German friends, the Schmidts, when they were run out of town during the anti-German hysteria in World War I. Tearfully, Mrs. Bowker says, \"Even the kindest of us is capable of cruelty. And I was cruel for not speaking up back then.\"\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 Soon the announcement calling for the assembly of Japanese Americans is posted around town. Mitsi is horrified to learn that Dash would not be allowed to come with them. Inspired by a class assignment, Mitsi writes to\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/John_DeWitt\" title=\"John DeWitt\">\n General DeWitt\n </a>\n , the man in charge of the Japanese American exodus. She tries to convince him that Dash is also a member of the Kashino family. General DeWitt writes back a curt message saying that he sends his regrets that pets are not allowed, but that \"we must all make sacrifices in times of war.\"\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-2\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-2\">\n [2]\n </a>\n </sup>\n To Mitsi's great relief, Mrs. Bowker agrees to care for Dash in her absence.\n </p>\n <p>\n The Kashinos are sent to \"\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Puyallup_(detention_facility)\" title=\"Puyallup (detention facility)\">\n Camp Harmony\n </a>\n \" (the ironic nickname of the temporary detention camp built at the Puyallup fairgrounds outside of Seattle) and Mitsi's main source of happiness is the letters she and Mrs. Bowker exchange; Mrs. Bowker \"writes\" as Dash. Over her many trips to the post office, Mitsi begins to overcome her shyness with strangers. When she receives the picture Mrs. Bowker took of Mitsi and Dash on their last day at Bainbridge, she is overjoyed and shows the picture to the many people in the camp. She soon befriends a bubbly girl her age named Debbie, who suffers from mysterious periodic depressive spells.\n </p>\n <p>\n After a while, they all are uprooted from \"Camp Harmony\" and make the dusty trip to\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Minidoka\" title=\"Minidoka\">\n Camp Minidoka\n </a>\n . Mitsi and her friends adjust to the new and old challenges of camp life, but Dash continues to be at the forefront in Mitsi's heart. She wonders when the war will end and if she can ever be reunited with her beloved dog.\n </p>\n <p>\n An author's note follows the story in which Kirby Larson credits the book\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://archive.org/details/strawberrydaysho00neiw_0\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n <i>\n Strawberry Days\n </i>\n </a>\n by Dave Neiwert for introducing her to the real Mitsi and Dash: Mitsue Shiraishi and her dog Chubby.\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n <b>\n Authored by\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Jan_Kamiya\" title=\"Jan Kamiya\">\n Jan Kamiya\n </a>\n </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n Kamiya, Jan\n </div>\n <p>\n Might also like\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Paper Wishes (book)/\" title=\"Paper Wishes (book)\">\n Paper Wishes\n </a>\n </i>\n by Lois Sepahban;\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Dust of Eden (book)/\" title=\"Dust of Eden (book)\">\n Dust of Eden\n </a>\n </i>\n by Mariko Nagai;\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Weedflower (book)/\" title=\"Weedflower (book)\">\n Weedflower\n </a>\n </i>\n by Cynthia Kadohata\n </p>\n <div id=\"RelatedArticlesDisplay\">\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"Related_Articles\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Related_Articles\">\n Related Articles\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p class=\"mw-empty-elt\">\n </p>\n <div id=\"RelatedArticlesSectionDisplay\">\n <div class=\"section\" id=\"\">\n <h3>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"\">\n </span>\n </h3>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p class=\"mw-empty-elt\">\n </p>\n <ul>\n <li>\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Children%27s_and_young_adults%27_books_on_incarceration\" title=\"Children's and young adults' books on incarceration\">\n Children's and young adults' books on incarceration\n </a>\n </li>\n </ul>\n </div>\n </div>\n </div>\n </div>\n </div>\n </div>\n</div>\n",
"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 Kirby Larson,\n <i>\n Dash\n </i>\n (New York: Scholastic Press, 2014), 52.\n </span>\n </li>\n <li id=\"cite_note-2\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-2\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n Larson,\n <i>\n Dash\n </i>\n , 76.\n </span>\n </li>\n </ol>\n </div>\n </div>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230521153420\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.022 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.029 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 395/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 7041/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 896/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 6/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 630/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00% 20.836 1 -total\n 12.86% 2.679 1 Template:RelatedArticles\n 11.12% 2.316 1 Template:Reflist\n 11.00% 2.291 1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 9.85% 2.052 1 Template:Databox-Books\n 6.38% 1.329 1 Template:RelatedArticlesSection\n 6.31% 1.315 1 Template:Published\n 6.30% 1.313 1 Template:AuthorByline\n 6.00% 1.250 1 Template:publish-rgonly\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:3375-0!canonical and timestamp 20230521153420 and revision id 31092\n -->\n </div>\n</div>"
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