We Are Not Free: A Printz Honor Winner as New York City spun

as New York City spun down the tubes

and considerations for commercial enterprises

"--Robin Wall Kimmerer

Spufford paints an irresistible picture of a New York provokingly different from its later metropolitan self

Relayed in his own unsparing voice

We Are Not Free: A Printz Honor Winner as New York City spun* NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * PRINTZ HONOR BOOK * WALTER HONOR BOOK * ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR LITERATURE HONOR BOOK * From New York Times best selling and acclaimed author Traci Chee comes We Are Not Free, the collective account of a tight knit group of young Nisei, second generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mass U. S. incarcerations of World War II. Fourteen teens who have grown up together in