Word: philomel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bracelet, by Yoshiko Uchida (Philomel; $14.95). A clear, direct look at social injustice is especially hard in children's literature, whose traditions say wrongs must be made right. In 1942 the Japanese-American author was sent with her family to a detention camp, and this story and Joanna Yardley's warm, elegiac illustrations recall a time for which good explanations are still not available. The title refers to a bracelet given the Japanese-American heroine Emi, who's about eight, by her Anglo friend Laurie. The gift and the remembered friendship allow Emi to hope that peace and trust will...