Sylvia & Aki
By Winifred Conkling
Publisher
Random House
Imprint
Tricycle
ISBN
By Winifred Conkling
9781582463971
Awards and Honors 2012 Jane Addams Award, Older Children; 2012 CCBC Choices; 2012 Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book AwardSylvia & Aki
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SKU
9781582463971J
When Aki’s family is sent to a Japanese internment camp, Sylvia’s family leases their farm. But Sylvia is also facing discrimination, as a Mexican American. Afterword about the Mendez and Munemitsu families, school segregation, and Japanese internment camps. Further reading. Bibliography. Black-and-white photographs of the real Sylvia and Aki.
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