At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.
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Part I. California and Arizona 1941 -- Part II. California and Arizona 1944-1945 -- Epilogue. California 1955.