tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478447915672497112.post2273091533487592338..comments2023-10-25T10:01:13.830-05:00Comments on <center>Rattle The Pages</center>: A Glimpse Back in Time (#6) - The Darkest Minds by Alexandra BrackenRattleThePageshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00384685788016281486noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478447915672497112.post-27083142054143696642016-12-23T14:39:31.647-06:002016-12-23T14:39:31.647-06:00I am dying to hear what you think of this series! ...I am dying to hear what you think of this series! And yeah, I only ever took regular history classes and I never learned about these camps in school! Or in college, but I didn't have to take history in college. I am glad I was conveniently scrolling through Alex's tumblr feed around the time that question was posted otherwise I might never have known about them! See, I love historical fiction so much because I have learned SO much since I started this feature!RattleThePageshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00384685788016281486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478447915672497112.post-28474817945262701572016-11-30T00:29:21.896-06:002016-11-30T00:29:21.896-06:00I learned about these camps in Regents History her...I learned about these camps in Regents History here in NYS back in the mid 70s. Not in depth, like about the consentration camps, but I still was familiar with them. I don't know if it was because it was regents level, or because it is/was part of NYS teaching syllabus. My son just said he learned about them, too, but again he was in IB History, so I don't know if the regular History classes study it or not. I read a Middle Grade about it last year called Dash. This was another great post and has me even more excited about reading this trilogy next year. :)La La in the Libraryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18253014225202985934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478447915672497112.post-57380221736526430532016-10-31T17:47:07.470-05:002016-10-31T17:47:07.470-05:00Thanks for the recommendations! I would be super j...Thanks for the recommendations! I would be super jazzed to read more books about this! These camps are horrid and I can't believe they really did that with a whole nationality of people! I can see why they would want that mess swept under the rug. Horrible!RattleThePageshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00384685788016281486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478447915672497112.post-247284615352002952016-10-25T13:07:08.456-05:002016-10-25T13:07:08.456-05:00Kristen Simmons' post on this was heartbreakin...Kristen Simmons' post on this was heartbreaking but also so crucial. The Japanese Internment camps are a very ugly moment in American history that US history books often try to sweep under the rug in favor of moments that show the US government in a more positive light.<br /> <br />If you want to read more historical fiction about Japanese internment and the racism Japanese-Americans faced during WWII I would also recommend Bat-6 by Virginia Euwer Wolff, A Diamond in the Desert by Kathryn Fitzmaurice, Dash by Kirby Larson, and Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com