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Barbed Wire Between Us

ISBN-10: 1636551920
ISBN-13: 9781636551920
Author: Wenjen, Mia
Illustrated by: Encarnacion, Violeta
Interest Level: 2-5
Publisher: Red Comet Press

Publication Date: March 2026

Copyright: 2026

Page Count: 48

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Grades 2-5

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BISAC Subjects

JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Emigration & Immigration

JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / 20th Century

JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / 21st Century

Description
A powerful reverso poem about two girls separated by barbed wire and 80 years of history

Barbed Wire Between Us is a powerful reverso poem that tells two deeply resonant stories across time. It begins with a Japanese American girl sent to an internment camp in Oklahoma during World War II. Read in reverse, it reveals the journey of a Latina girl detained in the very same camp decades later, during the U.S. policy of migrant family separation. Harrowing and emotionally charged, this poetic narrative compels us to confront a haunting question: What have we truly learned in the past 80 years about how we treat the most vulnerable among us? With haunting symmetry and striking parallels, Barbed Wire Between Us is a moving meditation on justice, memory, and the echoes of history that still shape our present.
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