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1) Let him go
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
N 1951 North Dakota, years after losing her son in a horse riding accident, Margaret Blackledge seeks to retrieve her grandson from the daughter-in-law who ran off with another man but finds her efforts challenged by her reluctant husband and the boy's stepfamily.
Author
Publisher
Blink
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Italian-American Evalina and Japanese-American Taichi's vow to be together, although interracial marriage is illegal in 1941 San Francisco, is tested when Taichi's family is sent to Manzanar internment camp. Includes historical notes.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Description
Teens Haruko, a Japanese American, and Margot, a German American, form a life-changing friendship as everything around them starts falling apart in the Crystal City family internment camp during World War II.
1944. The war seemed far away from Margot in Iowa and Haruko in Colorado-- until they were uprooted to dusty Texas, because of the places their parents once called home: Germany and Japan. At the high school in Crystal City, a "family internment...