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Author Warren, Andrea, author.

Title Enemy child : the story of Norman Mineta, a boy imprisoned in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II / Andrea Warren.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House, [2019]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1947138~S1
Location Call No. Status
 95th Street Juvenile Biography  J BIO MINETA    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Juvenile Biography  J BIO MINETA    AVAILABLE
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Description 214 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Before the storm -- Coming to America -- War at home -- The world at war -- Lowering the net -- Losing everything -- Santa Anita -- Into the wilderness -- Heart Mountain -- New routines -- Making the best of it -- Baseball! -- Meeting the enemy -- The miracle at Heart Mountain -- Leaving Heart Mountain -- Victory over Japan -- Going home -- School, army, politics -- A distinguished career.
Audience 4-6.
10+
Note 4-6.
10+
Summary "A biography of Norman Mineta, from his internment as a child in Heart Mountain Internment Camp during World War II, through his political career including serving in Congress for ten terms during which time he was instrumental in getting the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 passed which provided reparations and an apology to those who were interned"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-203) and index.
Subject Mineta, Norman Yoshio, 1931- -- Juvenile literature.
Legislators -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Children -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans -- Children -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Legislators -- Juvenile literature.
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Children -- Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans -- Juvenile literature.
Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.) -- Children -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.) -- Juvenile literature.
Genre Biographies.
ISBN 9780823441518 (hardcover)
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