Synopses & Reviews
Desperately I looked around for a way out. We couldn't get over the fence. The strands of barbed wire on top of it would rip us to shreds. Behind it, in the distance, the baseball game was going on. Why couldn't I have been there? The only way was the street we'd have to dodge the cars. I took a step toward the street, but Sam put a hand on my shoulder.
Nope, he said, shaking his head. We're not running any farther.
But but we can't fight them we can't win, I stammered.
We can't win, but we're going to fight them. Get rid of this, Sam said as he pulled the I Am Chinese button off my shirt and then took off his and stuffed them both in his pocket. Cover my back and I'll cover yours.
They came forward slowly. They knew there was no place to go.
When Canada went to war with Japan following the bombing of Pearl Harbour, Canadians of Japanese descent were declared Enemy Aliens. Without recourse of any kind, they were forced to leave their homes along with the British Columbia coast, their possessions were sold, and their rights as citizens denied. Caged Eagles follows fourteen-year-old Tadashi Fukushima and his family as they embark on a tortuous physical and emotional journey. Along with neighbours from their remote village on the northern BC coast, they travel by fishing boat to Vancouver, where they are placed in detention in Hastings Park, the Pacific National Exhibition ground, and forced to live in cattle stalls. For Tadashi detention becomes both an adventure and a dilemma as he struggles to understand the undercurrents of racism and injustice that have overtaken his life and those of his community.
Caged Eagles is the sequel to War of the Eagles (Orca, 1998), winner of the prestigious Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award and a CLA Honor Book. Eric Walters' Three on Three, an Orca Young Reader that deals with the struggle to win an elementary school basketball tournament, was published in the fall of 1999. Eric is a tireless and very entertaining school presenter who visits classes all over the country.
Caged Eagles is the second of two books in a series.
Book one is War of the Eagles.
Synopsis
When Canada went to war with Japan following the bombing of Pearl Harbour, Canadians of Japanese descent were declared Enemy Aliens. Without recourse of any kind, they were forced to leave their homes along with the British Columbia coast, their possessions were sold, and their rights as citizens denied. Caged Eagles follows fourteen-year-old Tadashi Fukushima and his family as they embark on a tortuous physical and emotional journey. Along with neighbours from their remote village on the northern BC coast, they travel by fishing boat to Vancouver, where they are placed in detention in Hastings Park, the Pacific National Exhibition ground, and forced to live in cattle stalls. For Tadashi detention becomes both an adventure and a dilemma as he struggles to understand the undercurrents of racism and injustice that have overtaken his life and those of his community.
Caged Eagles is the sequel to War of the Eagles (Orca, 1998), winner of the prestigious Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award and a CLA Honor Book. Eric Walters' Three on Three, an Orca Young Reader that deals with the struggle to win an elementary school basketball tournament, was published in the fall of 1999. Eric is a tireless and very entertaining school presenter who visits classes all over the country.
Caged Eagles is the second of two books in a series.
Book one is War of the Eagles.
Synopsis
Racism and injustice toward Japanese Canadians embue this story of a family in an internment camp.