Shek and his family were sent to hart mountain, Wyoming. The camp was one of ten built by the government as part of a prisoner-of-war program. Shig says they spent their days playing basket ball and football, soft all just finding ways to pass the time. One day he went hunting for magpiewe'll be right backmagpies are pretty birds. They're black with white patches on their wings and a long tail.
When Shigeru Yabu was 9 years old, he and his family were incarcerated at Heart Mountain Internment Camp, along with thousands of other Japanese and Japanese American families. One day, Shigeru discovered a baby magpie that had fallen out of its nest. He named her Maggie. “That bird walked up my arm all the way to my shoulder, and we looked at each other, eye to eye.”
Shigeru Yabu’s book is Hello Maggie!
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