Barbed wire baseball

Description:

As a boy, Kenichi “Zeni” Zenimura dreams of playing professional baseball, but everyone tells him he is too small. Yet he grows up to be a successful player, playing with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig! When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor in 1941, Zeni and his family are sent to one of ten internment camps where more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry are imprisoned without trials. Zeni brings the game of baseball to the camp, along with a sense of hope. This true story, set in a Japanese internment camp during World War II, introduces children to a little-discussed part of American history

subjects: historical fiction,  Japanese internment camps,  Japanese Americans,  Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945,  WWII,  Baseball,  World War, 1939-1945,  History,  Juvenile literature,  JUVENILE NONFICTION,  Baseball & Softball,  Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01801850,  World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924,  Sports & Recreation,  Biography & Autobiography,  Baseball, juvenile literature,  World war, 1939-1945, juvenile literature,  Baseball, history,  World war, 1939-1945

People: Kenichi “Zeni” Zenimura,  Kenichi Zenimura

Places: United States

Times: 20th century