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<br> <br> <p>* NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * PRINTZ HONOR BOOK * WALTER HONOR BOOK * ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR LITERATURE HONOR BOOK *</p> <p>From New York Times best-selling and acclaimed author Traci Chee comes We Are Not Free, 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.</p> <p>Fourteen teens who have grown up together in Japantown, San Francisco.</p> <p>Fourteen teens who form a community and a family, as interconnected as they are conflicted.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>In a world that seems determined to hate them, these young Nisei must rally together as racism and injustice threaten to pull them apart.</p>