I think he could see from like seven, eight years old that I had something. When we weren’t on the green together, we would draw goals with chalk in front of our house and just play one on one, end to end, shooting on each other, practising tricks, until our parents called us in. Honestly, he’s one of the reasons why I’m where I am today. I literally followed him around, wanting to do everything he did. He was the one who really got me into football. No one was more skillful than me back then. I even wore number 14 at my club because of Henry. All that lot back on the green can vouch. I didn’t learn how to defend until much later. You could find anything in that grass, I swear! Money, dog poo. Sometimes they didn’t cut the grass and it would get so long. Twenty of us or more, older lot as well, split into teams of 10 on 10, just playing til the sun went down. More than anywhere else, there’s this green in front of my parents’ old house. Inside, outside, garden, street, school, park, cages. It’s also a place where it’s easy to fall in love with football. It’s not the richest area, but it’s also alive, friendly, active. It’s a place where it’s easy to get lost. It makes it feel kinda like … trapped somehow, you know? Initially published by Atheneum in 1978, it was republished by Houghton Mifflin in 1989, Aladdin books in 1992, and Prentice Hall in 2000, all with illustrations by Charles Robinson.The place where I grew up, New Addington, Croydon, there’s literally only one exit, which is the same way you came in. , 1993), she never revisited this set of characters again. Though Uchida wrote a third book of fiction set in the concentration camps ( (like Munemori, Ken's best friend dives on a grenade to save the live of fellow soldiers). She also includes some specific historical events, including the killing ofĪt Topaz by guards (the grandfather of one of Yuki's friends is killed in a similar fashion) and the heroism of Period, ranging from the difficulties returnees faced with jobs and housing to the discrimination and occasional vandalism they encountered. She also works in many broader historical aspects of the Their spirits are restored when their neighbors, the Olssens, offer them breakfast and help to rebuild the store the Sakanes are shocked when they learn that the Olssens' son had been killed fighting on Iwo Jima.Īs in the first book, the events are loosely based on Uchida's own experiences during the war. Just then, Yuki's brother, Ken, returns to the family from the hospital, where he had been recovering from wounds suffered as a member of the (Forced to sell it for a mere $400, the group have to pay $5,000 to buy it back.) Upon their purchasing it, someone sets fire to it. Pooling their funds with two friends, they purchase a store one of them had owned before the war. They find their old home occupied, their yard unkempt, and that vandals had hit their old temple and the Japanese cemetery. When Japanese Americans are allowed toĪt the beginning of 1945, the Sakanes head back to the Bay Area, staying initially in an Oakland Henley, is openly racist and questions the loyalties of Japanese Americans despite this, she eventually becomes friendly to the family. In Utah, her mother works as a cleaning lady for a family with eight children, and her father gets a job as a shipping clerk. As the book begins, the family is leaving the camp for Salt Lake City, Utah, since they are still prohibited from returning to their Berkeley home. , the protagonist is Yuki Sakane, a twelve year old girl who was incarcerated with her parents at the Novel for young adults about a Japanese American family leaving the concentration camps and eventually returning to their home by prolific author Yoshiko Uchida, written as a sequel her 1971 book Geography:Delta, Utah Oakland, California PoV:First person Japanese American adolescent girl Theme:Evils of racism Family - blessing or curse Importance of community Creators:Yoshiko Uchida Charles Robinson (illustrator)
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