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In Uchida's poignant story about a young Japanese-American girl preparing to go to an internment camp with her family for the duration of the war who loses a cherished token of friendship, "Yardely's hushed, realistic paintings . . .) Full color.

Emi, a Japanese American in the second grade, is sent with her family to an internment camp during World War II, but the loss of the bracelet her best friend has given her proves that she does not need a physical reminder of that friendship.

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Overview

In Uchida's poignant story about a young Japanese-American girl preparing to go to an internment camp with her family for the duration of the war who loses a cherished token of friendship, "Yardely's hushed, realistic paintings . . .) Full color.

Emi, a Japanese American in the second grade, is sent with her family to an internment camp during World War II, but the loss of the bracelet her best friend has given her proves that she does not need a physical reminder of that friendship.

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The haunting immediacy of this moving tale may derive from its roots in Uchida's ( A Jar of Dreams ; The Best Bad Thing ) own childhood experiences--the author was interned in camps for Japanese Americans during WW II. Originally published as a short story, the book opens as Emi, her mother and sister prepare to leave their California home for a new residence: a racetrack that has been turned into a prison camp. Emi's best friend brings her a bracelet as a parting gift. Though Emi vows she will never take it off, the gold chain slips off her wrist as the girl helps clean out the filthy, abandoned stable that will serve as the family's ``apartment.'' After searching for it in vain, Emi eventually realizes that she does not need the bracelet to remember her friend, just as she does not need a photo to remember her father (who has been sent to a prisoner-of-war camp because he worked for a Japanese company); in her mother's words, such important parts of our lives ``we carry in our hearts and take with us no matter where we are sent.'' Yardley's ( The Red Ball ) hushed, realistic paintings add to the poignancy of Uchida's narrative, and help to underscore the absurdity and injustice suffered by Japanese American families such as Emi's. Ages 4-8. (Oct.)
Children's Literature
Before Emi and her family leave for the relocation center at Tanforan, her friend Laurie gives her a bracelet, a symbol of their friendship. When Emi loses it, she is certain that she has lost her friend, too, but she soon discovers that her memories will always remain in her heart. Yoshiko Uchida's The Bracelet is a poignant story sensitively told and illustrated. Although Ms. Uchida died last year, she left a rich legacy of stories about her life and her heritage.
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Children's Literature
This picture book is based on the author's experience in a West Coast internment camp. The image-laden book tells of Emi, a young Japanese girl, whose Anglo friend gives her a heart bracelet so that she can remember their friendship in the camp. When Emi reaches the filthy horse stall that's to be her home, she discovers the bracelet is missing, and temporarily crumbles. Soon though, Emi's emptiness is filled with memories of her friend. She realizes the bracelet and memories are "things we carry in our hearts and take with us no matter where we are sent."
School Library Journal
Gr 2-5-It is 1942, and seven-year-old Emi is being sent from her home in Berkeley, California, to an internment camp with her mother and older sister. Her father was arrested earlier and incarcerated in a camp in Montana. Temporarily herded into stables at a race track with other Japanese-American families, Emi realizes that she has lost the bracelet that her best friend, Laurie Madison, gave her as a parting keepsake. At first desolate, she soon realizes that she does not need the token after all, as she will always carry Laurie in her heart and mind. Uchida employs a simple, descriptive style, allowing the child's feelings to give punch to this vignette without becoming sentimental. An afterword gives brief, dignified historical context to the story. Yardley's watercolor illustrations both match and amplify the text at every point, evincing the greatest sensitivity to the depiction of character and to historical accuracy. This deceptively simple picture book will find a ready readership and prove indispensable for introducing this dark episode in American history.-John Philbrook, San Francisco Public Library
Hazel Rochman
Like many other books by Uchida, this picture book story is based on her own experience as a Japanese American interned in a prison camp during World War II. A brief afterword summarizes the general facts and figures of the injustice and the recent restitution, but the story and pictures are about one child, Emi, and her bewilderment and sadness: leaving her empty house, saying goodbye to her best friend, traveling with her mother and older sister to the abandoned Tanforan Racetracks, and trying to make a home in a dark, dirty horse stall. Before Emi leaves Berkeley, her best friend gives her a bracelet. Emi's heartbroken when she loses the gift in the camp, but she comes to realize that she doesn't need a bracelet to remember what she loved and left behind. The bracelet becomes a metaphor for the gift of friendship, the loss, and the enduring bond. Yardley's watercolor paintings show the long lines of people and the barbed wire and also the heartfelt emotion, as when Emi hugs her friend goodbye. Rooted as this story is, it is about the wartime refugee experience everywhere, and kids will identify with the injustice that could suddenly invade an ordinary home right here on their street.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780399225031
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 10/28/1993
  • Pages: 32
  • Sales rank: 848,652
  • Age range: 6 - 10 Years
  • Lexile: 0710L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 7.80 (w) x 9.88 (h) x 0.45 (d)

Meet the Author

Yoshiko Uchida has written more than twenty-five books for children, including A Jar of Dreams and The Best Bad Thing. Many of Ms. Uchida's writings are inspired by her Japanese- American heritage. During World War II, she and her family were forced to live in West Coast internment camps. It is in this experience that The Bracelet is based.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 7, 2007

    Not for ages 5-8

    The book is a great story of friendship and extreem racism. However, a girl forced from her home and placed in a concentration camp by guards with guns is not appropriate for young children.

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