As a boy, Kenichi "Zeni" Zenimura dreams of playing professional baseball, but everyone tells him he is too small. Yet he grows up to be a successful player, playing with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig! When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor in 1941, Zeni and his family are sent to one of ten internment camps where more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry are imprisoned without trials. Zeni brings the game of baseball to the camp, along with a sense of hope. This true story!
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Q:what does Zeni want to make at the internment camp ?
ReplyDeleteA: with the help of others he creates a baseball field for the kids, and adults do have a good time while playing baseball at the camp.
In the book i think there is a touching point to it about how with the war going on, and how Zeni was able to still share the happiness with others through the heart and love of baseball, and make it possible to have fun for the first time in a while.
ReplyDeleteQ:did zeni choose to go to the internment camp?
ReplyDeleteA:No he was forced.
I was amazed that they were able to build the field from scratch!
I think this story is an inspiration to all baseball players around the world.
ReplyDeleteQ: Why did the guard not go after Zeni and his sons?
ReplyDeleteA: Because he wanted to see what they were doing before he stopped them.
I did not think that they would be able to build the baseball field.
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DeleteQ:what does Zeni' parents think he will be when he grows up
ReplyDeleteA: a doctor a lawyer .
Q: what does Zeni make the belchers from
ReplyDeleteA:wood
Q: where was the camp that Zeni went
ReplyDeleteA: Arizona
I like how Zeni never gave up and built the baseball field in the hot sun.
ReplyDeleteQ: How tall was Zeni?
ReplyDeleteA: Zeni was 5 feet tall
Q: What team did Zeni play for?
A: The New York Yankees
Q: why did zenti get sent to a camp. A: the government thought he might be a spy for japan.
ReplyDeleteQ: why did the commander let zenti go. A: because he wanted to see what they would do.
ReplyDeleteAgree.
DeleteQ What did Zeni' s parents want him to be when he was older?
ReplyDeleteA Zeni' s parents wanted him to be a doctor or a lawyer.
Ya Michael you got it right!
DeleteQ why did Zeni go to camp
ReplyDeleteA: The Japenese were attacking Pearl Harbor.
Q:What relocation camp was Zeni go to?
ReplyDeleteA:The Gila river war relocation camp.
Q:What did they use to chalk the lines of the baseball field?
A:Flour.