Book 2011

Sylvia and Aki

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Publisher: Tricycle Press
Language: English
Published: 2011

Race relations
Segregation in education
Fiction
Mexican Americans
Japanese Americans
Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.)
Farm life
History

At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.