Uchida, Yoshiko (1996) The Bracelet.
The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida is about a little girl, Emi, who is sent to a concentration camp with her mother and sister during WWII. Her family is separated from her father who is sent to a prisoner of war camp since he worked for a Japanese company. Right before Emi leaves her friend gives her a bracelet to remember her by and Emi promises she will always leave it on, but when she is helping to get their new apartment cleaned up at the concentration camp it slips off and she can't find it. Emi realizes that her dad and her friend will always be in her heart and that she doesn't need a photo of her father or bracelet from her friend to remember them by. This book gives it's readers a very realistic description of what many Japanese families during WWII.
Other books written by Yoshiko Uchida include A Jar of Dreams, The Best Bad Thing, Journey Home, Invisible Thread, and Samurai of Gold Hill.
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