Camp Nine : A Novel (Paperback)

from dulcibelle

A coming of age story of a young girl growing up on the Arkansas delta during WW2. Her small town of just over 800 people was chosen as one of the locations for a Japanese-American Relocation Camp. Ten thousand Japanese-Americans arrived overnight and proceeded to make something out of nothing. T...

from julie10reads

In Schiffer's finely wrought debut novel-set in Rook, Ark. in 1942-12-year old Chess Morton's quiet life of plantations and bayous changes abruptly after her wealthy landowning grandfather sells some worthless land to the government. Housing 10,000 new residents, Camp Nine becomes one of many cam...

from whitreidtan

Interning Japanese-Americans in "relocation camps" during World War II is a shameful, and often ignored, part of US history. We imprisoned our own citizens based solely on their racial and cultural history and whether it was out of ignorance, fear, or greed, it was a terrible wrong. There are now...

from TheLostEntwife

For such a small book (151 pages), this one sure packs a punch. I know very little about the camps created here in the states for the Japanese after Pearl Harbor. But over the last year, I've been reading more fiction about the horrible treatment not only received by the Japanese, but other immig...

from BrokenTeepee

This book tells a fictionalized account of the interned Japanese US citizens during WWII. A camp was set up in Arkansas and our government moved law abiding CITIZENS to a military base simply because they were Japanese. It was one of the worst offenses post-slavery that this country had sanctione...