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Written for 5th through 8th grade readers, this graphic novel has a distinctive style of elongated caricatures colored with dark reds, yellows, blues, and browns.\n </p>\n <p>\n Koji is persecuted on a daily basis by both classmates and strangers—he is bullied, called a \"Jap spy,\" and told that \"no Japs were allowed\" on the public streetcar. Koji's simmering anger over these many injustices builds as he is labeled an \"enemy alien\" and told to report to a \"relocation camp,\" and he and Adeline are forced to sell their possessions to a junk dealer at a fraction of the cost. FBI agents repeatedly visit to ask about his father's whereabouts. Adeline angrily defends her husband and says that Ichiro had gone to Japan the previous summer to be with his ailing father.\n </p>\n <p>\n Onboard the bus to the \"Alameda Downs Assembly Center\" a former horse racetrack across the San Francisco Bay, Adeline and Koji discover that they are seated next to Ichiro's former employers, Mr. and Mrs. Asai.\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 Once they arrive at the camp, Adeline tries to be cheery and optimistic about their living situation; Koji is seething. His anger comes to a head when a gang of Japanese boys call out to Koji, \"Hey, gaijin!\" (outsider) and they brawl, breaking a window of the commander's headquarters in the process. As a result, the camp commander reprimands Koji—he must fix the window and be an assistant to Mr. Asai who is caring for the camp victory garden. They build a protective fence around the garden which the gang tears down. Mr. Asai tells Koji to ignore them; they rebuild the fence multiple times.\n </p>\n <p>\n Koji harbors secret fears in his thoughts and dreams. Throughout the book, Koji has a recurring nightmare that \"Pop\" is flying a Japanese bomber plane—he secretly wonders if \"Pop\" was somehow involved in the war. In addition, Koji is sullenly aware when men and boys remark within his hearing how pretty Adeline is. He begins to wonder if his mother is being unfaithful to his father and lashes out at Adeline. He reaches his breaking point when the same gang of boys yells that his mom is the camp floozy and another fistfight ensues. When guards arrive to break up the fight, this time Koji bolts and attempts to climb the perimeter fence, a dangerous mistake that could have cost him his life. The commander tells him that if there are any more infractions, he will be forced to send Koji to a juvenile detention camp.\n </p>\n <p>\n The boys catch up to Koji again and pressure him to steal cigarettes from the post exchange and then a box of Spam which they will need when they plan to break out of the camp. They overhear that in a few days they were going to be moved to a new (fictional) camp named \"Agua Dulce.\" The boys were desperate to escape that night as rumors were flying that the government was planning the mass move to bomb them out in the desert, away from any witnesses. When the box of Spam Koji stole goes missing, Jo, the leader of the gang beats up Koji and injures Koji's eye. Mr. Asai comes to Koji's rescue and takes him home to treat his wounds. Adeline is distraught at Koji's overnight disappearance and when he walks in the door of their room, they embrace.\n </p>\n <p>\n What will happen when they leave for \"Agua Dulce?\" Will the gang of boys be caught? Will Koji ever see his father again?\n </p>\n <p>\n Following the novel, in an afterward entitled \"Finding Adeline,\" Matt Faulkner writes that the book was based on the experiences of his great aunt, Adeline Conlan, a traveling Irish American singer who married a Japanese man named Ichiro in the 1920s. Adeline and her daughter Mary experienced much discrimination wherever they went. During World War II, rather than be separated from her daughter and grandchildren, Adeline joined Mary and Mary's family in\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Manzanar\" title=\"Manzanar\">\n Manzanar\n </a>\n , where they were among a small number of interracial families in the concentration camps.\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</div>\n",
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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/gaijinamericanpr00faul\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Gaijin: American Prisoner of War\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 <p>\n <br/>\n Might also like\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Fred Korematsu: All American Hero (book)/\" title=\"Fred Korematsu: All American Hero (book)\">\n Fred Korematsu: All American Hero\n </a>\n </i>\n by Anupam Chander and Madhavi Sunder;\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Journey of Heroes: The Story of the 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team (book)/\" title=\"Journey of Heroes: The Story of the 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team (book)\">\n Journey of Heroes: The Story of the 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team\n </a>\n </i>\n by Stacey T. Hayashi.\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"https://archive.org/details/journeyofheroess00unse\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n https://archive.org/details/journeyofheroess00unse\n </a>\n ;\n <i>\n <a class=\"encyc rg\" href=\"/wiki/Citizen 13660 (book)/\" title=\"Citizen 13660 (book)\">\n Citizen 13660\n </a>\n </i>\n by Miné Okubo\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</div>"
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