ISBN: 0-916870-85-5
160 pp.
Size: 5.5 x 8.25
Paperback Original
Price: $9.95
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Journey to Topaz
Yoshiko Uchida
With a new prologue by Yoshiko Uchida.
Like any eleven-year-old, Yuki Sakane is looking forward to Christmas when her peaceful world is suddenly shattered by the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Father is taken by the FBI, and she, her mother and older brother, Ken, are uprooted from their home and shipped with thousands of West Coast Japanese Americans to the horse stalls of Tanforan Racetrack and then to the bleak desert concentration camp called Topaz.
There Yuki and her new friends, Emi and her grandparents, face terrifying duststorms, new hardships and finally a terrible tragedy that rocks the entire camp. Disillusioned, Ken must make a heart-wrenching decision, and Yuki faces another painful separation from her best friend as well as her brother.
Review: An ALA Notable Book
"...a moving story...This tragic herding of innocent people is described with dignity and a sorrowful sense of injustice that never becomes bitter."
-Saturday Review
"...a sensitive and thought provoking story."
-ALA Booklist
"The story, based on the author's personal experiences, is told with remarkable balance and objectivity."
-Bulletin for Children's Books
"...told with humanity and insight...well-developed characters and vivid events."
-East Asia Review
Bio: YOSHIKO UCHIDA was born in Alameda, California and grew up in Berkeley. She began writing when she was ten years old, creating small books out of brown wrapping paper in which to write her stories. She in now the author of twenty-five published books for young people and has won many awards for her work, including a Distinguished Service Award from the University of Oregon.
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