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<b>"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. </b><br> <br><b>We are not free. </b><br> <br><b>But we are not alone." </b><br><br> From <i>New York Times</i> best-selling and acclaimed author Traci Chee comes <i>We Are Not Free, </i> 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.<br> <br> Fourteen teens who have grown up together in Japantown, San Francisco.<br> <br> Fourteen teens who form a community and a family, as interconnected as they are conflicted.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> In a world that seems determined to hate them, these young Nisei must rally together as racism and injustice threaten to pull them apart.