The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp [Hardcover]

Barry Denenberg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1999 | Age Level: 9 and up

Heartbreaking and humorous, this is the story of a twelve-year-old prisoner in one of America's Japanese internment camps of World War II.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Hardcover: 157 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic Inc.; 1st edition (September 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590485318
• ISBN-13: 978-0590485319
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #689,352 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Informs us about Japanese Peoples' suffering during WWII, November 22, 1999

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This review is from: The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp (Hardcover)

I really enjoyed this book. We all know about Hitler and what he did to Jewish people, but nobody really knows about how much the Japanese people suffered too during WWII. Although we call them "Internment Camps" they were actually no better than concentration camps so whats the use pretending. I am glad this author wrote a book about Japanese people, some american citizens, during WW II. This book is worth the money.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good book in the series., May 13, 1999

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This review is from: The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp (Hardcover)

Twelve-year-old Ben, his family, and thousand of others are sent to internment camps during Word War II because they are Japanese Americans. Ben's family is sent to the Mirror Lake Internment Camp, a desolate, barren place. There, Ben records his thoughts in a journal. This was an interesting book in the My Name is America series

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very vivid details!, July 31, 2001

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This review is from: The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp (Hardcover)

This book was written in very vivid detail as it talks about the injustice to the Japanese people during World War II. Ben finds it hard to be squeezed into a little hut with another family and having practicly no privacy. School is impossible as you can even hear the teachers because there are no soundproof walls and you can hear what the teachers are talking about in the next room. This is a great book about how a young boy has to deal with living in a camp.