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displacement (book)

• Books
• Grades 7-8, Grades 9-12
• Grades 7-8, Grades 9-12
• Graphic Novels, Historical Fiction
• Coming of age, Injustice, Power of the past
• Widely available

Graphic novel set in 2016 whose protagonist, sixteen-year-old "Kiku Hughes," begins to experience strange episodes of time travel that take her back to her grandmother's wartime exclusion and incarceration at Tanforan and Topaz . Completely lost at first, "Kiku" comes of age in the concentration camps, making close friends, building community, and enjoying a romance with another teenage girl. Back in the present, she and her mother—who reveals that she has also experienced such episodes of "displacement"—discuss the importance of their family history and the need to use that knowledge to protest on behalf of others.

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