While I Was Away

Bea Is for Blended

Right as Rain

Little Hero Boy LCPL Anthony Aguirre

What We Saw

How Sarah Fought Her Scary Thoughts

Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad

Surrounded by Love: An Open Adoption Story

“All around me, my friends are talking, joking, laughing. Outside is the camp, the barbed wire, the guard towers, the city, the country that hates us.

We are not free.
But we are not alone.” 

We Are Not Free, is 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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While I Was Away

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Bea Is for Blended

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Right as Rain

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What We Saw

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How Sarah Fought Her Scary Thoughts

Phd, Lana Mahgoub, Lana Mahgoub PhD, 2023

Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad

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