![]() ![]() * "Yardley's hushed, realistic paintings add to the poignancy of Uchida's narrative, and help to underscore the absurdity and injustice suffered by Japanese American families such as Emi's. 14, 1993 Emi, a young Japanese-American whose family leaves Berkeley to be interned at the beginning of WW II, receives a bracelet as a parting gift from her best friend, but it's lost on the first day at the camp. "How will I ever remember my best friend?" she asks herself. THE BRACELET by Yoshiko Uchida & illustrated by Joanna Yardley RELEASE DATE: Oct. But on the first day of camp, when Emi discovers she has lost her heart bracelet, she can't help wanting to cry. For her mother's sake, Emi doesn't say how unhappy she is. The Bracelet Yoshiko Uchida 3. ![]() The United States and Japan are at war.Seven-year-old Emi doesn't want to leave her friends, her school, her house yet as her mother tells her, they have no choice, because they are Japanese-American. ![]() Yoshiko Uchida draws on her own childhood as a Japanese-American during World War II in an internment camp to tell the poignant story of a young girl's discovery of the power of memory.Įmi and her family are being sent to a place called an internment camp, where all Japanese-Americans must go. ![]()
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