Award Name Young Reader\'s Choice Award Award category Junior/Grades 4-6 Description Short-listed for the 2012 Pacific Northwest Young Readers Choice Award and for the 2011 Hackmatack Children\'s Choice Award Nine-year-old Michiko Minagawa bids her father good-bye before her birthday celebration.
She must face local prejudice, the worst winter in forty years and her first Christmas without her father..
At school Michiko learns the truth of her situation.
The house in which they are to live is dirty and drafty.
There are no paved roads, no streetlights and not streetcars.
Even though her aunt Sadie jokes about it, they have truly reached the "Land of No".
Ten days later, her family joins hundreds of Japanese-Canadians on a train to the interior of British Columbia.
She doesn\'t know the government has ordered all Japanese-born men out of the province.
Award Name Young Reader\'s Choice Award Award category Junior/Grades 4-6 Description Short-listed for the 2012 Pacific Northwest Young Readers Choice Award and for the 2011 Hackmatack Children\'s Choice Award Nine-year-old Michiko Minagawa bids her father good-bye before her birthday celebration
