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Displacement

Kiku Hughes

In this graphic novel with time-travel elements, teenage Kiku is repeatedly pulled from her contemporary life into the World War II imprisonment of Japanese Americans. Eventually stuck in the past, she lives near her young grandmother, Ernestina, and other imprisoned people. Kiku, who is Japanese and white, is frustrated by how little she has learned about this history and by her family’s silence around it. As she observes her grandmother’s family and makes friends, she confronts questions of memory, language, and family history.

This book appears on 3 reading lists across 1 edition from 3 organizations.

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Book details

Themes
Friendship · Grandparents And Generations · History · Identity · War And Conflict
Format
Paperback
Publisher
First Second
Published
August 18, 2020
Pages
288
ISBN-13
9781250193537
Language
English
Cooperative Children's Book Center, University of Wisconsin–MadisonCCBC Choices
  • 2021Fiction for Young Adults
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