The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559 Mirror Lake Internment Camp

by Barry Denenberg

Book Overview

Twelve-year-old Ben Uchida keeps a journal of his experiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590485318
• ISBN13: 9780590485319
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 9 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 9

Customer Reviews

The Journal of Ben Uchida

OMGOSH! I finally got my book can't wait to read it I love the dear America books so much!.

Good book

This book is about a boy named Ben Uchida, who has to move to an internment camp along with his family, because he's Japanese American. This book is a good book that teaches a lot about history.

Mirror Lake Prison Camp

I really liked the book, and I think that it was a very acurate, very to the point book (Some books just go on and on about nothing). The main Character had a great sense of humor, and I found myself laughing throughout the book. It's a great book, and even if you dont like to read these types of books, you'll love this one, becauase if you are my age (13) the boy in the book is very down to earth, and you can relate to him. I recomend this book to anyone that likes: The Dear America books (This is NOT a dull one) Any WW2 books Any historical books Journal books I think that this book probably appeals to the age group of about 11-18.

The Journal of Ben Uchida book review.

The Journal of Ben Uchida,a historical fiction novel by Barry Denenberg, is a very descriptive book about prejiduce against Japanese-Americans. The book takes place in an internment camp in the 1940's. There are four main charecters: Ben,Robbie,Ben's best friend,Naomi,Ben's sister, and Momma. Ben Uchida is a 12 year-old Japanese-American. After the attacks on Pearl Harbor,Hawaii the American goverment thought that all people with Japanese or Japanese-American acestry were going to spy for the Japanese goverment. So Ben and his family were sent to an internment camp in Mirror Lake,and he explains how terrible it was. Anyone who reads this book will think it is very interesting because it explains what happened in a very descriptive way.The reader will like it because it is filled with many facts and details describing what life was like.Anyone who is willing to read a somewhat sad story will very much enjoy this book.

Very vivid details!

This book was written in very vivid detail as it talks about the injustice to the Japanese people during World War II. Ben finds it hard to be squeezed into a little hut with another family and having practicly no privacy. School is impossible as you can even hear the teachers because there are no soundproof walls and you can hear what the teachers are talking about in the next room. This is a great book about how a young boy has to deal with living in a camp.

A good book in the series.

Twelve-year-old Ben, his family, and thousand of others are sent to internment camps during Word War II because they are Japanese Americans. Ben's family is sent to the Mirror Lake Internment Camp, a desolate, barren place. There, Ben records his thoughts in a journal. This was an interesting book in the My Name is America series