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Summary: Ben's humor helps him to get through tough times
Review: Ben Uchida is a 12 year old Japanese-American who is living a normal life until one day they hear that Japan has attacked Pearl Harbor. Overnight things change. His father is arrested and Ben, his mother, and his sister are shipped of to Mirror Lake Internment Camp.
Ben's journal records his day to day life, including battling lines at the mess hall and surviving the dust storms that whip through the desert. He has a wonderful sense of humor, which makes seemingly unbearably situations bearable. And this book gives you a glimpse of what it was like for a Japanese-American during World War 11.Of all the 'My Name Is America' books that I've read, this has got to be my favorite one. I had just picked it up at the library, and once I started reading, I couldn't put it down! Even though Ben and his family suffered terrible injustices by the Americans, he has such a wonderful sense of humor.
I promise you, if you read this book, you will not be disappointed. I can't understand why some people would call this book boring. It's full to the brim with life and vitality. Even though some parts are sad, the funny parts make up for it. Read it, you won't be sorry!
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Summary: The Journal Of Ben Uchida
Review: i thought it was good, but i kept on puting it down because i could not keep on reading it for more then 10 min. at a time. (it's to boring). But i found something odd, it's the journal of Ben Uchida but in the pictures in the back on page 151 they have a picture of three boys, and if look at the middle boy you will see that he is in the exact same clothes, position and has the same face as the boy on the cover(they are the same). Which would be fine except for the fact that they call him....Bruce Sansui. So i wonder how researched this book is......
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Summary: a great book
Review: Recommendation I recommend this book to anyone that is thirteen or older because in eighth grade you learn about many of the prison camps in the United States and the whole world" there were watchtowers with soldiers pointing machine guns down at us." I think that it was a very good book. It is one of the best books I have ever read. Many books talk about the Americans, but this book focuses on the Japanese Americans who were put into concentration camps in the United States during World War II. "When I got off the train, the first thing I thought was they must have let us off at the wrong stop." Ben had said that because he and his family had just got to Mirror Lake, but they did not know that they were being put into a prison. This is a very good book, and I encourage you to read it.
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Summary: The Journal of Ben Uchida book review.
Review: The Journal of Ben Uchida,a historical fiction novel by Barry Denenberg, is a very descriptive book about prejiduce against Japanese-Americans. The book takes place in an internment camp in the 1940's. There are four main charecters: Ben,Robbie,Ben's best friend,Naomi,Ben's sister, and Momma.
Ben Uchida is a 12 year-old Japanese-American. After the attacks on Pearl Harbor,Hawaii the American goverment thought that all people with Japanese or Japanese-American acestry were going to spy for the Japanese goverment. So Ben and his family were sent to an internment camp in Mirror Lake,and he explains how terrible it was. Anyone who reads this book will think it is very interesting because it explains what happened in a very descriptive way.The reader will like it because it is filled with many facts and details describing what life was like.Anyone who is willing to read a somewhat sad story will very much enjoy this book.
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Summary: The Journal of Ben Uchida by Barry Denenberg
Review: This book is about a twelve year old Japanese boy living in the United States before the start of World War II. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Japanese people were considered to be a threat to America. The Americans suspected that they may be spies. The United States government rounded all people of Japanse ancestry and relocated them to internment camps throughout the United States. In the book, Ben Uchida and his family are sent to the Mirror Lake internment camp in north-central California. Ben is a baseball player and plays on a team that him and his friends formed. His family (Ben his sister and mother) lived in a cramped apartment with three other people. One of them Mr. Thashima made furniture for the apartment. Ben's dad was taken away to Montana for questioning by the government. To find out if his dad returns safely or more details I recommend you read the book. I would rate this book a three out of five because it was not the most interesting book I have read. Sometimes it was just plain boring. It had little action. I thought it was a good fictional diary of a boy in the 1940's. It gave you an idea of what it would be like to live in the internment camps. The book showed me that what the U.S. Government did to the Japanese-Americans was discrimating towards their race. I think our country learned that what they to did to the Japanese after the attack on Pearl Harbor was wrong.
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Summary: Life At a different Type of Camp
Review: This book is absolutely so wonderful! It is a must-read!
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