bibliovermis 's review for:

Displacement by Kiku Hughes

4.0

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A classic of middle school class reading, Janet Yolen's "The Devil's Arithmetic" tells a story of the Holocaust by sending a modern child back in time to witness and experience her own family's treatment in a concentration camp, thus bringing history into a modern perspective. "Displacement" is a similar treatment of the Internment of Japanese Americans during WWII—but with a more advanced, updated story and a graphic novel format with beautiful drawings. I hope it's also widely adopted for classroom reading!