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My Solar-Powered History #1
What, No Sushi?: My Solar-Powered History at a Japanese-American Internment Camp
Experience Solar-Powered History!
There’s something you should know about my dad. He’s always inventing! When I asked him why Japanese Americans left their homes during World War Two, Dad decided to create the coolest invention ever. My brothers and I knew Dad’s solar-powered machine would be amazing. We just had no idea that Dad was about to send us on a breathtaking adventure through history! Why did so many Americans of Japanese ancestry have to leave the West Coast and go to internment camps? What happened to them once they got to the relocation centers? And why does our new friend Kimiko look so familiar that I’m just sure we’ve seen her somewhere before? Join me, Lake Otis, and my brothers, Benson and O’Malley, as we investigate these questions in What, No Sushi?: My Solar-Powered History at a Japanese-American Internment Camp , the first book in the My Solar-Powered History series!
There’s something you should know about my dad. He’s always inventing! When I asked him why Japanese Americans left their homes during World War Two, Dad decided to create the coolest invention ever. My brothers and I knew Dad’s solar-powered machine would be amazing. We just had no idea that Dad was about to send us on a breathtaking adventure through history! Why did so many Americans of Japanese ancestry have to leave the West Coast and go to internment camps? What happened to them once they got to the relocation centers? And why does our new friend Kimiko look so familiar that I’m just sure we’ve seen her somewhere before? Join me, Lake Otis, and my brothers, Benson and O’Malley, as we investigate these questions in What, No Sushi?: My Solar-Powered History at a Japanese-American Internment Camp , the first book in the My Solar-Powered History series!
114 pages, Paperback
First published April 7, 2013
About the author
Alana Terry
95 books477 followersWhen Alana isn't writing, it's likely that she's on the floor wrestling with her kids. Or playing outside with her kids. Or chauffeuring her kids. Or trying some random science experiment with her kids. But she's probably not cooking or cleaning.
Alana is a homeschooling mother of three who loves to write, hates to cook, and enjoys reading a good book almost as much as she enjoys writing one.
Alana won the Women of Faith writing contest for "The Beloved Daughter," her debut inspirational novel. "What, No Sushi?" is Alana's first book in a chapter-book series for kids published by Do Life Right, Inc.
Alana is a homeschooling mother of three who loves to write, hates to cook, and enjoys reading a good book almost as much as she enjoys writing one.
Alana won the Women of Faith writing contest for "The Beloved Daughter," her debut inspirational novel. "What, No Sushi?" is Alana's first book in a chapter-book series for kids published by Do Life Right, Inc.
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January 27, 2016
This is a book for young readers about the internment of persons of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
In this case there are three brothers who have an archaeologist as a mother and an inventor as a father. The father creates a time machine so they can go back in time and meet a relative named Kimiko. She's a young girl at the time and she and her family are forced to relocate to the Granada internment camp.
The boys are to go with her to help her. She is, though, the only one that can see them. There's a fairly good description of what the camp looked like and what kinds of things were done and what problems the internees had to deal with. It's a sort of cute story and good as an introduction for young readers to the topic of the internment.
In this case there are three brothers who have an archaeologist as a mother and an inventor as a father. The father creates a time machine so they can go back in time and meet a relative named Kimiko. She's a young girl at the time and she and her family are forced to relocate to the Granada internment camp.
The boys are to go with her to help her. She is, though, the only one that can see them. There's a fairly good description of what the camp looked like and what kinds of things were done and what problems the internees had to deal with. It's a sort of cute story and good as an introduction for young readers to the topic of the internment.
October 10, 2015
My 11 year old son and I listened to this together. He loved it! It was a great short book on the topic of the Japanese Interment camp without any graphic details. However, it really spoke on how it was. The character in the story is a homeschooled student, which made it extra fun for us.
January 27, 2015
I loved this story! What a neat way to teach children about the history of the Japanese-American internment camps. I highly recommend this book.
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