They Called Us Enemy By George Takei, Justin Eisinger, and Steven R. Scott (Grades 4-6)

They called us enemy is a retelling of the George Takei's expireince being imprisoned in American internment camps during World War II. Long before Takei braved new frontiers in Star Trek, he woke up as a four-year-old boy to find his own birth country at war with his father's -- and their entire family forced from their home into an uncertain future.They Called Us Enemy is Takei's firsthand account of those years behind barbed wire, the joys and terrors of growing up under legalized racism, his mother's hard choices, his father's faith in democracy, and the way those experiences planted the seeds for his astonishing future.