Shig and his family were taken by train to a detention center, the pomona assembly center on the los angeles county fair grounds. Food was scarce, and people would wait in long lines just to be assured they would get a meal. Shaik's family spent four months sharing one room with another family of four. They pa never seen so many japanese in their sheik and his parents were taken to an interment camp that was called the hart mountain relocation centre.
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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