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New Pub Date for We Are Not Free

3/27/2020

 
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📢 NEWS! 📢 The release date of #WeAreNotFree has been changed to 9/1. If you’ve already pre-ordered, please hang on to your receipts a little longer, because I’ve still got a 🎁 for you! If you haven’t pre-ordered... 👀 go here!

Two Stars for We Are Not Free!

3/26/2020

 
Praise for WE ARE NOT FREE:
I woke up to this WONDERFUL news! WE ARE NOT FREE has received a second starred review!! ⭐⭐ "necessary and beautiful... This remarkable book deserves to be in any library collection."--School Library Journal, starred review. Read the rest here!

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A Star for We Are Not Free!

3/25/2020

 
 Praise for WE ARE NOT FREE: “a blazing and timely indictment of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII”--Booklist, starred review, with the cover of We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
The first trade review for WE ARE NOT FREE is in, and it's a STAR! ⭐ Huge thanks to Booklist, which calls it "a blazing and timely indictment of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII." Read the rest of this incredible review here.

Introducing... Yum-yum! WE ARE NOT FREE Character Reveal & Bookmark Giveaway

3/23/2020

 
Bookmark of We Are Not Free with the quote, “All around me, my friends are laughing. Outside is the camp, the barbed wire, the guard towers, the city, the country that hates us. But in here, we are together. We are not free. But we are not alone.” --Yum-yum (age 16), Tanforan Assembly Center, Calif. 1942
Introducing... Yum-yum! 👼 A+ student. Good daughter. Always responsible older sister. But why bother, when no matter how good she is, she’ll still be locked up in a detention center without freedom or rights or privacy? Maybe it’s time to finally let loose. 💃🏻 #WeAreNotFree‬

For the giveaway, check my Instagram!

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Hey everybody, meet Shig! WE ARE NOT FREE Character Reveal

3/17/2020

 
Picture(Image: Bookmark from We Are Not Free and the quote: “That’s how it is these days. You hesitate, and your neighbors have vanished. You look away, and your friends have been stolen from you. You blink, and you’re gone.” --Shig (age 17), San Francisco, Calif. 1942)
Hey everybody, meet Shig! 🧳 Good-natured, easy-going, a little lazy. Would rather hang out and shoot the breeze than pack up his whole life into two suitcases to make it easier for the government to ship him off who-knows-where, but what’s a guy to do? #WeAreNotFree

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Please meet... MINNOW! We Are Not Free Character Reveal & Bookmark Giveaway

3/11/2020

 
bookmark for We Are Not Free with the quote,
‪Everyone, please meet… Minnow! 🐟🌈 Day-dreamy artist bb who loves his city, his mother, and his two older brothers. Wallflower. Insightful af. ‪Minnow’s just trying to get home before curfew in San Francisco, 1942, trying to ignore the way people stare at him like he’s the enemy, when he’s stopped by a bunch of white guys just outside Japantown. Read his chapter here and enter to win his bookmark on Twitter!

3 Months Until WE ARE NOT FREE!

3/9/2020

 
photo of We Are Not Free surrounded by old black and white photographs
3 MONTHS until WE ARE NOT FREE! Have you preordered your copy yet?

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Be sure to keep your receipts because I have something in the works for you. 👀

We Are Not Free Collectible Bookmarks

3/3/2020

 
set of six bookmarks that form the front and back covers of We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
Hey Internet! 🎏 Meet my new kiddos: (from left to right) Twitchy, Shig, Yum-yum, Bette, Minnow, and Frankie. 💗 I was so in love with John Lee's incredible illustrations that I made a set of six collectible bookmarks for #WeAreNotFree! 🌁 Over the new few weeks, I’ll be revealing quotes and giving away several of each bookmark on my various social media platforms (and newsletter), so if, like me, you’re a collector at heart ❤️, be sure to click that “follow” button!


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