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Sylvia & Aki

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2011

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Title:	Sylvia & Aki
Author:	Conkling, Winifred.
Edition:	First edition
Format:	Book
Publisher, Date:	Berkeley : Tricycle Press, ©2011.
Description:	vii, 151 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Summary:	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.
Subjects:	Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.) -- Juvenile fiction. Poston Relocation Center (Ariz.) -- Fiction. Race relations -- Juvenile fiction. Segregation in education -- Juvenile fiction. Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Juvenile fiction. Mexican Americans -- Juvenile fiction. Farm life -- California -- Juvenile fiction. Race relations -- Fiction. Segregation in education -- Fiction. Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Fiction. Mexican Americans -- Fiction. Farm life -- California -- Fiction. Orange County (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction. Orange County (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Other Title:	Sylvia and Aki
ISBN	9781582463971 (lib. bdg.)

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