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Barbed Wire Between Us
Hardcover
General Juvenile FictionHistory
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9781636551920
Publisher: Red Comet Press
Published: Mar 31 2026
Pages: 48
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.50 Width: 11.20 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
A breathtaking reverso poem about two girls--separated by barbed wire, connected across generations.
- ⭐ Starred review from Kirkus
- ⭐ Starred review from Publishers Weekly
- ⭐ Starred review from School Library Journal
- A Kirkus Most Anticipated Children's Book of Spring 2026
Read forward, a Japanese American girl is uprooted and sent to an incarceration camp during World War II, her world reduced to dust, distance, and longing. Read in reverse, and the poem transforms: now a Latina girl stands in that same place, detained generations later, her story echoing across time.
With language as spare as it is powerful, Mia Wenjen shapes a reverso poem that reveals how history can fold in on itself--how loss, resilience, and hope repeat in new forms. Violeta Encarnación's evocative artwork deepens the emotional landscape, illuminating both the quiet tenderness and the stark realities of life behind the wire.
Together, they create a book that reads like a mirror held up to the past--and the present.
A luminous and unflinching meditation on memory, injustice, and the fragile promise of belonging, Barbed Wire Between Us lingers long after the final line--asking not only what happened, but what we choose to see, and what we dare to change.
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