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Faulkner, Matt

Gaijin: American Prisoner of War

144 pp. | Disney/Hyperion | April, 2014 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4231-3735-1 $19.99
(2) 4-6 On Koji's thirteenth birthday, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor. Despite being only half-Japanese, Koji is forced to report to the Alameda Downs Assembly Center where his (white) mother voluntarily accompanies him. Through astute choices of medium (pen and watercolor), color (earth tones with red and blue accents), and composition (shifting perspectives and panel layouts), Faulkner creates a vivid and compelling internment-camp graphic novel. Reading list, websites.
Reviewer: Jonathan Hunt | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2014

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