The War Between the Classes

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Overview

What are Amy and Adam going to do about their love life? Neither Amy's traditionalist Japanese parents nor Adam's snobby, upper-class mother will accept their relationship. To make things worse, Amy and Adam are involved in the "color game" at school, an experiment that's designed to make students aware of class and racial prejudices.

Now the experiment threatens to alienate Amy from her friends and tear her apart from Adam. She knows it's time to rebel against the color game. But will the rest of the class follow her lead?

Seventeen-year-old Emiko, brought up in a strict Japanese-American family, is in love with handsome blond Adam, although she realizes her old-fashioned father expects her to find a Japanese husband.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780440994060
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Publication date: 10/28/1986
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 176
Sales rank: 535,554
Age range: 12 years
Lexile: 710L (what's this?)
Series: Laurel-Leaf Contemporary Fiction Series
Product dimensions: 5.39 (w) x 6.90 (h) x 0.48 (d)

Meet the Author

Gloria D. Miklowitz is the author of over 60 fiction and nonfiction books for children and young adults. Her books have won national and international awards and deal with important issues such as racial injustice, steroid abuse, date violence and militia involvement. Three of her novels were made into award-winning television specials, including one which won the Emmy for "Best Children's Special" in 1985 (The War Between the Classes). A frequent speaker at schools, Ms. Miklowitz has also taken part in conferences in the United States, South Africa and Sweden.

After graduating from the University of Michigan, Miklowitz married and moved to California where she became a script writer of documentary films on rockets and torpedoes for the Navy Department. Her husband, a scientist, became Professor of Engineering at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. When her second son was born she left her job and began writing for children, entering a manuscript in a national contest and selling her first book.

As her children grew older she wrote for middle grades and then young adults. More than half her published books are for the older reader. She says, "I write because I like to try on different lives through my characters and want to help young people find answers to their problems."

A widow, Ms. Miklowitz lives in La Canada, California. Her two sons are college professors of Philosophy and Psychology. All four Miklowitzes have books in print and one granddaughter is now trying her hand at being a writer.

For more biographical information see www.authors4teens.com and the 17th edition of Something About the Author Autobiography Series, pp 225-241.

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Anonymous

Posted January 21, 2005

Perfect for Educators

It's been over 10-years since I've read this book, and it still comes to my mind. It's an excellent book to help any educator enlighten youth about racial, economic, and gender discrimination. Even to this day, I still recall many of the lessons that this book presented; I can only assume that the same thing has happened to others. On a side note, this book was based on an actual sociology experiment...and there is contact information for educators to get their own copy of this experiemtn to try out for themselves if they wish. A definite must read, and something to consider implementing.
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Anonymous

Posted June 5, 2003

The War Between the Classes was horrible

Gr. 7-10 The War Between the Classes did not have some of the essentials to be a good book. This book had little to no exciting events, which means it was quite boring and uninteresting. I didn¿t like the book because of how little it left me wanting to keep reading. It felt like I was falling asleep while reading the book, it was horrible. Amy is an Asian middle class and the main character. Adam is her boyfriend he¿s American rich and popular. Neither of there parents wants them dating someone of a different race. Furthermore, Amy¿s dad is already mad because Amy¿s brother Hideo eloped to a white woman Sue. Sue is pregnant with Hideo and her baby. The book is mainly about a game Amy¿s schoolteacher sets up called the color game. In the color, everybody is assigned a color, orange being the lowest game everybody is assigned a color blue being the highest. Adam gets orange Amy gets blue. Because Blues can¿t talk to oranges, Adam and Amy start drifting apart. Eventually Amy becomes a turncoat to the blues, and gets demoted to orange. She and Adam get closer again, and the oranges plan a rebellion to make all colors in unison. At this point Sue loses her baby. Amy¿s dad feels sorry for her and realizes that he should start excepting Adam. One of the main reasons I didn¿t like this book is because I couldn¿t identify with any of the characters. The main characterizations of Amy is she m idle class, but its mostly she¿s Asian and a women. Although there are some things I can relate to with Amy, overall I can¿t because I¿m American and a male. She goes through discriminations about both being Asian and a woman, and I couldn¿t really have any empathy towards her. I identified with Adam more. Adam is rich and American, that made it a lot easier to relate. I am American and a male so I did identify a little. The reason I couldn¿t relate to Adam is because I didn¿t like him. I thought he was snotty and could be obnoxious, I can¿t relate to someone I don¿t like. I would only recommend this book to someone who likes a lot of controversy. Controversy plays a huge roll in this book because of how it talks about discrimination. It discusses how in this country white people are dominant. In addition, it deals with how rich or upper people have more power than lower or middle class. To add, it discusses how men are superior to women. Although I didn¿t like the book, I did like its theme. Its message was that discrimination is everywhere. We should refrain from being prejudiced or biased The massage is very real and we have to follow it. In conclusion, this book was not very good. It was very boring, and uninteresting, nothing really happened. I don¿t think you should read this book I doubt you¿ll enjoy it.
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Anonymous

Posted January 25, 2002

The order of the Classes

I am a 7th grader and usually I hate reading assigned books, because it always seems like the reading teachers assign you boring books on purpose and then expect you to want to read more form reading that boring book. But this book was different. It starts out a little slow, but after that it is really obsorbing. This novel also teaches the average person that there is such a thing as racisom, but we CAN do something about it if we want to. This was a really good book.
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Anonymous

Posted October 27, 2001

This book has all a good book needs!

This book is great! It includes all the things that a book should have! Action, Drama, Comedy and Meaning. Check it out.
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