Journey to Topaz: 50th Anniversary Edition

Journey to Topaz: 50th Anniversary Edition
Paperback, 5.25 x 8.25, 168 pages.
ISBN: 9781597145589.

By Traci Chee , Yoshiko Uchida

This much-loved and widely read classic is the moving story of one girl’s struggle to remain brave during the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. In 1941, eleven-year-old Yuki is looking forward to Christmas when disaster strikes: she and her family, along with everyone of Japanese descent on the West Coast, are labeled enemy aliens. The FBI arrests her father, and she, her mother, and her brother are imprisoned in a bleak and dusty camp surrounded by barbed wire in the Utah desert. There, she and her family experience both true friendship and heart-wrenching tragedy. 

Journey to Topaz explores the consequences of prejudice and the capacities of the human spirit. First published in 1971, this novel was the first children’s book about the wartime incarceration written by a Japanese American. This fiftieth anniversary edition features new cover art and a refreshed design.

About the Authors

Traci Chee

Traci Chee

Traci Chee is a Japanese American author of young adult fiction. Her novel, We Are Not Free, was a National Book Award Finalist, Printz Honor Book, and Walter Honor Book. We Are Not Free also received starred reviews from School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist.

Yoshiko Uchida

Yoshiko Uchida

Yoshiko Uchida (1921—1992) was born in Alameda, California, and grew up in Berkeley. She is the author of many books, including Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family, and Journey to Topaz and Samurai of Gold Hill.

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