The author's description of the empty rooms, stripped of all personal belongings and furniture (where did all these items go?) will certainly remind readers of homes the have loved and left, and the sensory details the author provides about the 'barracks' Emi and her family are forced to live in-actually barely refurbished horse stalls, with the lingering odor of the animals, as well as bugs, and dust-go a long way to underscore all that has been lost. When they got to the place they got to live in a apartment. After she got the bracelet, they had to move. Before she left, her friend gave her a her a bracelet. I prefer Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki, which is for slightly older children. Philomel Books, 17. The Bracelet By Yoshiko Uchida The End Plot Theme and vocab Ruri has to move to Japan to the United States. It is informative and accessible (and includes a helpful author's note), but it lacks significant incident.

The Bracelet is a simple text that introduces young students to the internment of Japanese-Americans that occurred during World War II. When Emi loses the bracelet, she discovers that it is not necessary to have objects to remember important people and places they live in one's mind. The Bracelet Yoshiko Uchida 3.93 512 ratings110 reviews In 1942 America, seven-year-old Emi and her Japanese-American family are forced to leave their home, a situation that becomes even more devastating when she loses a precious gold bracelet, a gift from her best friend. camp in Montana because he worked for a Japanese company. Emi's father has already been removed to a P.O.W. War is raging across the sea, and because Japanese-Americans look like the enemy, they are the enemy. Emi, a young Japanese girl in second grade, receives a gold bracelet from her friend just before she, her mother, and her sister leave their home for an internment camp.

The bracelet by yoshiko uchida