Barbed Wire Between Us Children's Chapter Books and The Upside Down Hat

and The Upside Down Hat

From buying a snow globe on a warm summer day—shaking it—and causing the sky to snow

—Caldecott Medalist David Macaulay

Without space to grieve

Barbed Wire Between Us Children's Chapter Books and The Upside Down HatA powerful reverso poem about two girls separated by barbed wire and 80 years of history Barbed Wire Between Us is a powerful reverso poem that tells two deeply resonant stories across time. It begins with a Japanese American girl sent to an internment camp in Oklahoma during World War II. Read in reverse, it reveals the journey of a Latina girl detained in the very same camp decades later, during the U. S. policy of migrant family separation.