03301cam a2200469 i 4500 623601750 TxAuBib 20220727120000.0 210414s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021946049 9781536204308 hardcover 1536204307 hardcover (OCoLC)1246145212 YDX YDX eng eng rda rda YDX rda BDX rda YDX JTB SVP GO3 LJW RNL MDR ILC TCH EHH UAB OCLCO OCLCF OCLCO OUN TxAuBib BDX JTB SVP GO3 LJW RNL MDR ILC TCH EHH UAB OCLCO OCLCF OCLCO OUN TxAuBib rda Tokuda-Hall, Maggie, author. Love in the Library / By Maggie Tokuda-Hall ; Illustrated By Yas Imamura. First edition. Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2022. 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 28 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Based on a true story of love and resilience at the Minidoka incarceration camp. Set in an incarceration camp where the United States cruelly detained Japanese Americans during WWII and based on true events, this moving love story finds hope in heartbreak. To fall in love is already a gift. But to fall in love in a place like Minidoka, a place built to make people feel like they weren't human--that was miraculous. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Tama is sent to live in a War Relocation Center in the desert. All Japanese Americans from the West Coast--elderly people, children, babies--now live in prison camps like Minidoka. To be who she is has become a crime, it seems, and Tama doesn't know when or if she will ever leave. Trying not to think of the life she once had, she works in the camp's tiny library, taking solace in pages bursting with color and light, love and fairness. And she isn't the only one. George waits each morning by the door, his arms piled with books checked out the day before. As their friendship grows, Tama wonders: Can anyone possibly read so much? Is she the reason George comes to the library every day? Maggie Tokuda-Hall's beautifully illustrated, elegant love story features a photo of the real Tama and George--the author's grandparents--along with an afterword and other back matter for readers to learn more about a time in our history that continues to resonate. Ages 6-9. Candlewick Press. 620L Lexile. Decoding demand: 84 (very high) Semantic demand: 87 (very high) Syntactic demand: 88 (very high) Structure demand: 83 (very high) Lexile. Accelerated Reader AR LG 3.4 0.5 516386. 20220727. Japanese Americans Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 Juvenile fiction. Libraries Juvenile fiction. Love Fiction. Picture books. lcgft Social problem fiction. Historical fiction. lcgft Fiction. lcgft Imamura, Yasmin, illustrator. TXKPL