Reissue: El Béisbol Nos Salvó: Edición Especial 25° Aniversario (Paperback)

from lorren.jackson

Summary: A young Japanese boy and his family lived in an internment camp during WWII. The boy's father wanted to make their life better at camp so he decided to create a baseball field. The boy wasn't that great at baseball and he was made fun of. Until one day that he wanted to hit the ball hard...

from ElizabethJackson7

Summary: The government took over and America and Japan were at war. The Americans couldn't be trusted. They stuck them in a camp that was hot in the day and cold at night. They lived in barracks. A dad decided one day that they needed a baseball field to get their minds off of everything. They m...

from matthewbloome

This is really a nice book on the subject of discrimination and Japanese internment camps as it would have been experienced by a child. It was beautifully illustrated and the text was just right. I liked it. As good as Heroes by the same author/illustrator team.

from odonnell

With picture book "Baseball Saved Us" , author Ken Mochizuki tells the story of a distressing time in California history...when Japanese-Americans were interned during World War II. The ordeal of many is told through the first person narrative of a young Japanese-American boy. (The reader never f...

from MarthaSohl

This story takes place during World War II and is told from the perspective of a young boy, Shorty, who was sent with his family to live in a Internment camp because they were Japanese and the United States Government considered all Japenese a possible threat. Shorty's father was instrumental in ...