As they are getting off the boat that took them to the main land her mother discovers the dog a tries to help Manami hide him but Yujiin is discovered and take from the and put in a crate. Manami is told she cannot bring her dog Yujiin with her but she will not accept this and speaks Yujiin into her coat before they go. Manami, her family, and all other Japanese Americans are told to pack everything they can carry and that they will be moved to new homes off the island where they live.

Manami lived with her mother, father, grandfather, and her little dog Yujiin. The story is told around the time pearl harbor was bombed. This story is about a young girl named Manami. It isn't until she finds a way to let go of her guilt that Manami can reclaim the piece of herself that she left behind and accept all that has happened to her family. She and her grandfather are devastated, but Manami clings to the hope that somehow Yujiin will find his way to the camp and make her family whole again. Manami decides to sneak Yujiin under her coat and gets as far as the mainland before she is caught and forced to abandon Yujiin. Manami is sad to go, but even worse is that they are going to have to give her and her grandfather's dog, Yujiin, to a neighbor to take care of. It's 1942, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Manami and her family are Japanese American, which means that the government says they must leave their home by the sea and join other Japanese Americans at a prison camp in the desert. Ten-year-old Manami did not realize how peaceful her family's life on Bainbridge Island was until the day it all changed. It isn't until she finds a way to let go of her guilt that Manami can reclaim the piece of herself that she left behind and accept all that has happened to her family.A moving debut middle-grade novel about a girl whose family is relocated to a Japanese internment camp during World War II-and the dog she has to leave behind.

A moving debut middle-grade novel about a girl whose family is relocated to a Japanese internment camp during World War II-and the dog she has to leave behind.

Paper Wishes by Lois Sepahban