Baseball Saved Us
Author Ken Mochizuki Illustrator: Dom Lee
This title fits these anti-bias criteria
Y
This book fits these categories
Y Y
Classification Picture Book
Acceptable grade levels Elementary - 3rd and up
Concepts/ Topics covered in book:
A young Japanese American boy shares how he feels as his family is moved to an internment camp during WWW II. The parents start a baseball team to keep the children occupied. The game creates community and gives the children a chance to be successful in a depressing situation.. It also allows the boy to rejoin the American children as he shared a common interest and had developed his skills.
.Guiding Questions/Activities
Before reading
Is it fair to lock people up when they have not been accused of a crime?
After reading:
Why were people who were Americans put in these camps just because of the way they looked and where they came from? What was their crime?
How did the boy feel when he was called names?
Teacher's Guide for this book
About the Author
Visit the author's website http://kenmochizuki.com/
Awards
- Winner, Parents' Choice Award
- Winner, Washington State Governor's Writers Award
- Best Multicultural Title, "Cuffies Award" - Publishers Weekly
- "Editors' Choice" - San Francisco Chronicle
- "Choices," Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
- "Pick of the Lists," - American Bookseller
- Washington State Children's Choice Award Finalist