Fact Friday: Enemy Child: The Story of Norman Mineta, a Boy Imprisoned in a Japanese American Internment Camp During World War II by Andrea Warren

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Enemy Child: The Story of Norman Mineta, a Boy Imprisoned in a Japanese American Internment Camp During World War II by Andrea Warren. 224 p. Margaret Ferguson Books/ Holiday House, April, 2019. 9780823441518. (Review of finished purchased copy.) 


Fact Friday features Enemy Child: the story of Norman Mineta, a Boy Imprisoned in a Japanese American Internment Camp During World War II by Andrea Warren. A lesser known but no less shameful part of our history during the second World War is the fact that thousands of U.S. citizens of Japanese descent effectively lost everything - their rights, their savings, their jobs and their homes. They were ordered to report to detention centers and treated like prisoners. Norman Mineta was ten at the time. He was an American citizen who loved baseball. This is the story of his family's experience.

The book is beautifully designed with glossy pages, heft, plenty of white space and more than eighty photos. Plentiful back matter provides additional information. An absolute must-read for any student of history, but more importantly for everyone else.