We Are Not Free: A Printz Honor Winner

by Traci Chee

A community disrupted by wartime incarceration

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A community disrupted by wartime incarceration

Set among young Nisei in San Francisco’s Japantown during World War II, the novel centers a group of fourteen teens whose shared lives are reshaped by the mass incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry in the United States. Its collective account places friendship and family ties alongside the pressures of racism, injustice, and forced removal. The community’s connections are described as both close and conflicted, giving the story a focus on how a group navigates upheaval together.

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Teens and young adults interested in historical fiction about Japanese American experiences during World War II.
Readers seeking fiction focused on friendship, community, racism, and injustice.

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Japanese American incarcerationCommunity and familyFriendshipRacism and injustice

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* NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * PRINTZ HONOR BOOK * WALTER HONOR BOOK * ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR LITERATURE HONOR BOOK *

From New York Times best-selling and acclaimed author Traci Chee comes We Are Not Free, the collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mass U.S. incarcerations of World War II.

Fourteen teens who have grown up together in Japantown, San Francisco.

Fourteen teens who form a community and a family, as interconnected as they are conflicted.

Fourteen teens whose lives are turned upside down when over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry are removed from their homes and forced into desolate incarceration camps.

In a world that seems determined to hate them, these young Nisei must rally together as racism and injustice threaten to pull them apart.

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