The Whirlwind

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By Carol Matas ISBN: 9781551437033 format: Paperback pages: 144 publisher: Orca Book Publishers pub. date: 2007-03-01

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Matas, whose Holocaust novels include In My Enemy's House (1999), confronts a shameful part of World War II history--Americans' prejudice against German Jewish refugees. Ben Friedman, newly arrived in Seattle in 1941, remembers the horror of Kristalnacht and leaving his grandparents behind on their way to the camps. In his grief, he directs his fury against his father. He's bullied in his new school and called names, but he makes friends with a Japanese American classmate, John. Then John and his family are sent to an internment camp, and Ben runs away to Canada, only to encounter even worse prejudice and exclusion. Although Matas never equates discrimination with genocide, there's always the question, "Is it all happening again?"

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