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The Red Tricycle (short story)
- Short Stories
- Grades 9-12, Adult
- Evils of racism, Injustice, Optimism – power or folly
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The scene as a Nikkei family—a mother with her two daughters and four-year-old son Tommy—make the last preparations at their farmhouse before a truck comes to take them to the train station that will deliver them to a concentration camp. Their spirits are temporarily buoyed by a unexpected kind act by one of the soldiers who comes for them.