Michi Challenges History: From Farm Girl to Costume Designer to Relentless Seeker of the Truth: The Life of Michi Nishiura Weglyn
by Ken Mochizuki
A powerful biography of Michi Weglyn, the Japanese American fashion designer whose... read more
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- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Experience
- Asian American
- Women / Girls
Year Published 2023
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1270L
- ATOS Reading Level: Currently Not Available
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Fashion designers--United States--Biography
- Costume designers--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Japanese American women--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
- World War, 1939-1945--Reparations
- Japanese Americans--Biography
- Weglyn, Michi, 1926-1999
- Weglyn, Michi, 1926-1999--Juvenile literature
- Japanese Americans--Reparations--Juvenile literature
- Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945--Juvenile literature
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- Japanese-American Incarceration Middle
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