That I wanted the story to be told from the perspective of a little sister who Suddenly, the seed for the story sprouted and it was all I could think about. Read, listen, look.Ī few years ago, I read a photo book about children who lived at Manzanar. Photographs of Manzanar all made me stop. Manzanar, or whenever it was mentioned during history class (usually just a blip ofĪ paragraph in the whole text book), that seed was watered. Over the years, whenever we would drive past the road leading to His mom spoke to us at school once about her parents’ In my earlyĮlementary school years, I had a friend whose grandparents had been interneesĭuring World War II. I grew up in central California, not far from Manzanar. How did you come up with the idea for your novel? To preorder Paper Wishes: Amazon B&N Booksamillion Powells BAM IndieBoundġ. Paper Wishes is receiving excellent reviews: SLJ Kirkus PW And she can only do that by learning to speak again. Eventually, it is up to Manami to hold her family together. At the camp, she can only make drawings, paper wishes sent by the wind, for her beloved dog to return. She sneaks her dog onto the ferry, but when a soldier forces her to abandon the dog, the traumatized young girl stops speaking. Ten-year-old Manami, and her entire family, are sent to Manzanar, a Japanese internment camp in central California.
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