We Are Not Free by Traci Chee

Fourteen teens who have grown up together in Japantown, San Francisco. Fourteen teens who form a community and a family, as interconnected as they are conflicted. Fourteen teens whose lives are turned upside down when over 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry are removed from their homes and forced into desolate incarceration camps. In a world that seems determined to hate them, these young Nisei must rally together as racism and injustice threaten to pull them apart.
Trigger & Content Warnings
- Racism & racial slurs
- Misogyny
- Hate crimes
- Death of a friend
- Fire
- Imprisonment
- Internment camps
- War themes
- Poverty themes
- Animal death, on-page