Yoshiko Uchida

The Invisible Thread By Yoshiko Uchida

The Invisible Thread details the early life of Yoshiko and the difficulty her family faced being a Japanese American family during the war. Yoshiko attends school, goes to football games, has company over to eat, goes to church, and has the desire to go to college to like any American citizen. Yoshiko is treated differently due to her culture and skin color. The book details how her family was treated after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. She describes the conditions they had to live in and how hard they worked to keep their family together through all the events that happened throughout the story. Yoshiko during this time does find her deserve to become a elementary school teacher and works to make that dream come true no matter what the circumstances where in her life.

Readers will gain a better understanding of how harsh Japanese Americans were treated due to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Yoshiko opened my eyes as to how harsh and cruel people were treated due to their skin color and ancestor heritage. The conditions described in the contrition camps were not fit for an animal to live in let alone human beings. Yoshiko’s family had the determination to stay together and no to remain positive through all the situations that took place.

Yoshiko Uchida has written numerous books about life as a Japanese American. She has written a book called Journey to Topaz that details the life of a Japanese American family in a concentration camp. She has won awards from Friends of Children Literature, Children's Spring Book Festival Honor Award, New York Herald Tribune, and American Library Association Notable Book.

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