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Crystal City (Tex.) History 20th century Crystal City Internment Camp (Crystal City, Tex.) Fiction Friendship Fiction German Americans Evacuation and relocation, 1941-1948 Fiction German Americans United States History 20th century Iserloh, Ingrid 1930- Japanese Americans Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Fiction Japanese Americans History 20th century Utsusjogawa, Sumi 1929- World War, 1939-1945 United States FictionHesse, Monica
Summary: Haruko and Margot meet at the high school in Crystal City, a 'family internment camp' for those accused of colluding with the enemy. The teens discover that they are polar opposites in so many ways, except for one that seems to override all the others: the camp is changing them, day by day and piece by piece. Haruko finds herself consumed by fear for her soldier brother and distrust of her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HESHesse, Monica
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC HESMeissner, Susan
Summary: Elise Sontag is a typical Iowa fourteen-year-old in 1943--aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U.S. resident for nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer. The family is sent to an internment camp in Texas, where, behind the armed guards and barbed wire, Elise feels stripped of everything beloved and familiar, including...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MEIRussell, Jan Jarboe
Summary: The dramatic and never-before-told story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II; where thousands of families, many US citizens, were incarcerated. From 1942 to 1948, trains delivered thousands of civilians from the United States and Latin America to Crystal City, Texas, a small desert town at the southern tip of Texas. The trains carried Japanese,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015