The Lucky Baseball: My Story in a Japanese-American Internment Camp

by Suzanne Lieurance

Book Overview

Harry Yakamoto grew up in Seven Cedars, California playing baseball, going to school, and working at his family's restaurant. As a young Japanese American, he faced discrimination daily, but when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, his life would change forever. Forced to move to a relocation center in the desert of California, Harry and his family have to start a new life behind barbed wire and guarded watchtowers. Readers follow Harry Yakamoto...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0766033112
• ISBN13: 9780766033115
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Enslow Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6