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novellyness's review
4.0
Stealing Home by J. Torres was about a young boy's struggle to grow up during WWII while being displaced to a Japanese internment camp after the attack at Pearl Harbor. Sandy Saito has a passion for baseball and misses his absent father who is forced to be elsewhere for the duration of the war.
This graphic novel was a very good introduction to the historic reality of the Japanese internment camps for a middle grade level. It was a coming of age story that was a bit about baseball without being too much about baseball, and captured a basic understanding of what young children of Japanese descent may have experienced during this forced incarceration that happened across North America in the 1940's.
Stealing Home was reminiscent obviously in subject matter but also a bit in illustration style of They Called Us Enemy by George Takei but again, Stealing Home is directed towards a middle grade audience.
Thank you to NetGalley for the digital ARC in exchange for an honest review. I would recommend this book for middle grade classrooms and a must read for history if homeschooling.
This graphic novel was a very good introduction to the historic reality of the Japanese internment camps for a middle grade level. It was a coming of age story that was a bit about baseball without being too much about baseball, and captured a basic understanding of what young children of Japanese descent may have experienced during this forced incarceration that happened across North America in the 1940's.
Stealing Home was reminiscent obviously in subject matter but also a bit in illustration style of They Called Us Enemy by George Takei but again, Stealing Home is directed towards a middle grade audience.
Thank you to NetGalley for the digital ARC in exchange for an honest review. I would recommend this book for middle grade classrooms and a must read for history if homeschooling.
burkbooks's review
3.5
This was very informative. I learned a good amount about a subject I was not knowledgeable about. I also loved the idea of baseball being something that helped these people in such a horrible time in their lives. That being said, I had a hard time emotionally connecting to this book. Maybe just because it went by so fast, I’m not sure but that connection to the characters is something I really wanted more of. It was very eye opening though so I am thankful I read it!
theverycraftyvegan's review
emotional
hopeful
informative
sad
fast-paced
5.0
A very good graphic novel about the racial injustice Japanese-Canadians we’re forced to suffer through in the 1940s. I’ve passed it on to my grade 5 kid to read. I hope they enjoy it and that it opens their eyes to one part of Canada's long and dark history.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Racism, Abandonment, Bullying, and Xenophobia
Moderate: War
knd's review
3.0
Thank you NetGalley for provinding me an eARC of this book! I really liked this graphic novel, but I couldn’t connect to it.
The art was lovely. The story was great, it made me feel angry and sad at the same time, but it also made me feel hopeful and grateful for many things I take for granted. However, it didn’t have a big effect on me. I don’t know if it’s because the characters felt flat or because of the fast paced plot.
Nevertheless, it was a good graphic novel, and I recommend reading it more for informational purposes than for fun. It did a good job portraying this awful situation that many people had to live through.
The art was lovely. The story was great, it made me feel angry and sad at the same time, but it also made me feel hopeful and grateful for many things I take for granted. However, it didn’t have a big effect on me. I don’t know if it’s because the characters felt flat or because of the fast paced plot.
Nevertheless, it was a good graphic novel, and I recommend reading it more for informational purposes than for fun. It did a good job portraying this awful situation that many people had to live through.