Stranger on the Home Front: A Story of Indian Immigrants and World War I Contributor(s): Chhabra, Maya (Author), Freeberg, Eric (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 1631634860 ISBN-13: 9781631634864 Publisher: Jolly Fish Press OUR PRICE: $27.08 Product Type: Library Binding - Other Formats Published: January 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - United States - 20th Century - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States - Asian American - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Emigration & Immigration |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2020002969 |
Lexile Measure: 740 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 7.6" (0.55 lbs) 160 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: It's 1916, and Europe is at war. Yet Margaret Singh, living an entire ocean away in California, is unaffected. Then the United States enters the war against Germany. Suddenly the entire country is up in arms against those who seem "un-American" or speak against the country's ally, Great Britain. When Margaret's father is arrested for his ties to the Ghadar Party, a group of Indian immigrants seeking to win India's independence from Great Britain, Margaret's own allegiances are called into question. But she was born in America and America itself fought to be freed from British rule. So what does it even mean to be American? It's the storytellers that preserve a nation's history. But what happens when some stories are silenced? The I Am America series features fictional stories based on important historical events about people whose voices have been excluded, lost, or forgotten over time. |