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Manami
is
a ten-year-old girl, born on Bainbridge Island in
Washington to Japanese parents. In March of 1942,
following orders for relocation in Executive Order 9066,
Manami and her family and the entire Japanese-American
population of Bainbridge Island, are sent to Manzanar,
an internment camp in central California. On the day
they are to leave their island home, Manami is
distressed when she learns that they are leaving her dog
behind, too. When no one is watching, she hides her dog
inside her coat. She manages to sneak him onto the ferry
that takes them to the mainland, but a soldier spots him
before she can board the bus that will take them to the
train station. What happens next causes Manami to stop
speaking. At the camp, it is up to Manami to hold her
family together. And she can only do that by learning to
speak again.
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