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They Called Us Enemy - Expanded Edition

Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, George Takei

4.54 AVERAGE

adfiee's review against another edition

5.0

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Potent and sadly still valid.

meganm43's review against another edition

5.0

emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

shebereadinthembooks's review against another edition

5.0

informative reflective fast-paced

rebeccatemple98's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

emilyblackburn's review against another edition

3.5

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

natalie_ayerdis's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional sad fast-paced

kyrarm's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

penleguin's review against another edition

5.0

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Oof. A firsthand account of George Takei’s experience growing up in Japanese internment camps, with other significant historical events of the time peppered in to provide context. Similar to the March trilogy, in that I learned more about this instance of American history through this one book than I have from multiple high school and college American history classes. Published in a prescient time; it’s impossible not to draw connections between Takei’s experiences and those that refugees along the southern border of the United States are currently facing. Everyone should read this.

ealebrun's review against another edition

5.0

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Great book for the middle school level to teach about Japanese internment camps during WWII.

readingrediscovered's review against another edition

5.0

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I thoroughly enjoyed this first person retelling of the WWII Japanese Internment Camp experience. I love history of WWII but sadly most of it focuses on the Holocaust and ignores the other things that happened, so this was a good book to add to my collection.
I loved the pictures and Takei's vivid imagery in words and his sense memories. Highly recommend.