Enemy child : the story of Norman Mineta, a boy imprisoned in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II
(2019)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
J/BIOGRAPHY/940.531/MINETA,N

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Kids' Biographies J/BIOGRAPHY/940.531/MINETA,N Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House, [2019]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

214 pages : illustrtions ; 26 cm cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780823441518, 0823441512 :, 0823441512, 9780823441518
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Before the storm -- Coming to America -- War at home -- The world at war -- Lowering the net -- Losing everything -- Santa Anita -- Into the wilderness -- Heart mountain -- New routines -- Making the best of it -- Baseball! -- Meeting the enemy -- The miracle at Heart Mountain -- Leaving Heart Mountain -- Victory over Japan -- Going home -- School, army, politics -- A distinguished career

"A biography of Norman Mineta, from his internment as a child in Heart Mountain Internment Camp during World War II, through his political career including serving in congress for ten terms during which time he was instrumental in getting the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 passed which provided reparations and an apology to those who were interned"--

4-6

10+

1030L