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My Lost Freedom: A Japanese American World War II Story

George Takei

Illustrator: Michelle Lee

Ages: 9+

Published: 2024

Publisher: Crown BFYR/Random House Children's Books/PRH

ISBN: 978-0-593-56635-0

Keywords: Biography/Memoir-Japanese Americans, Family, Incarceration, picture books for older readers

Actor George Takei recalls childhood experiences of prejudice and injustice in an American internment camp during World War II. Mixed-media illustrations. Back matter.